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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. How does Kennedy describe the person she talks about in the introduction to beauty?
(a) A loud voice.
(b) A compassionate soul.
(c) A trendsetter.
(d) A mind ahead of her time.

2. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Frustrating.
(c) Prosaic.
(d) Natural.

3. Who wrote The Summer Day?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Julia Avarez.
(c) Mary Oliver.
(d) Edna St. Vincent Millay.

4. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?
(a) Her pets.
(b) Her grandchildren.
(c) Her students.
(d) Her children.

5. Why can't the woman in The Widow's Lament in Springtime feel happy in the spring?
(a) She misses her husband.
(b) She has put away happiness.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is too busy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?

2. What happens in each stanza of Nobody Knows But Mother?

3. Whom does Seamus Haney write to in In Memoriam MKH (1911-1984)?

4. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

5. Who does Marianne Moore say feed most on solitude?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Summer at the Beach about?

2. What is The Book of Ruth, 1:16-17 about?

3. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

4. What is Roses Only about?

5. What is Living about?

6. What is We Know This Much about?

7. What is Patterns about?

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

9. What is Secret Lives about?

10. What is Death, Etc. about?

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