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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 is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?
(a) Breaking rules.
(b) Potty training.
(c) Telling a lie.
(d) Writing letters.

2. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

3. When does the heart go forth in The Heart of a Woman?
(a) The high noon.
(b) The sunset.
(c) The dawn.
(d) The pitch dark of night.

4. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?
(a) Fully.
(b) Openly.
(c) Privately.
(d) Silently.

5. When does Emily Bronte feel the happiest?
(a) When she is dreaming.
(b) When she is with her children.
(c) When she is alone.
(d) When she is making love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?

2. What does Bernadette Mayer want to buy for her friend?

3. Whom does Kennedy say everyone wants to be around?

4. How does Sharon Olds feel about her son in Socks?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Death, Etc. about?

2. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

3. What is Patterns about?

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

5. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

6. What is The Great Lover about?

7. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

8. What is Living about?

9. What is I Stepped from Plank to Plank about?

10. What is Summer at the Beach about?

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