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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 tone of Bra Shopping?
(a) Pleasant.
(b) Angry.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Cryptic.

2. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?
(a) How she responds to solitude.
(b) How her spouse treats her.
(c) How religious she is.
(d) How her children turn out.

3. When does Emily Dickinson say the most solemn industry happens?
(a) The morning after death.
(b) The hour of deliverance.
(c) The death bed.
(d) The cimax of sickness.

4. Why does William Blake want Hayley to be his enemy?
(a) For good writing material.
(b) For friendship's sake.
(c) To add drama to life.
(d) To solve a mystery.

5. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?
(a) The loss of innocence.
(b) Losing his wife to his child.
(c) Losing his child to death.
(d) The responsibility of having a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennedy say mothers do to give their children power?

2. What does Kennedy say is the same in each stage of life?

3. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

4. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?

5. Who wrote Keeping Things Whole?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Somebody's Mother about?

2. What is if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have about?

3. What is Secret Lives about?

4. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

5. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

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

7. What is The Great Lover about?

8. What is We Know This Much about?

9. What is "to my last period" about?

10. What is Death, Etc. about?

(see the answer keys)

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