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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in each stanza of Nobody Knows But Mother?
(a) A question is asked.
(b) A task is described.
(c) A person dies.
(d) A tribute is made.

2. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?
(a) Adoration.
(b) Approval.
(c) Respect.
(d) A dress.

3. How does Christina Rossetti want to be remembered?
(a) With accuracy.
(b) With a smile.
(c) With fondness.
(d) With mercy.

4. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?
(a) The heat.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) The smell of the ocean.
(d) Women's bodies.

5. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?
(a) Young.
(b) Middle aged.
(c) Old.
(d) Inexperienced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?

2. How is the ritual in Hairwashing described by the daughter?

3. In A Poem of Friendship, what do friends not need in order to love each other?

4. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?

5. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Secret Lives about?

2. What is When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone about?

3. What is The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law about?

4. What is The Great Lover about?

5. What is Summer at the Beach about?

6. What is Death, Etc. about?

7. What is Living about?

8. What is Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain about?

9. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

10. What is Somebody's Mother about?

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