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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. Who wrote High School Senior?
(a) Sharon Olds.
(b) Mary Morrison.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Linda Pastan.

2. What does Kennedy say is the same in each stage of life?
(a) They are not what we expect.
(b) They pass to fast.
(c) They bring pain.
(d) They last too long.

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

4. Whom does Kennedy say everyone wants to be around?
(a) Their friends.
(b) The ones who taught them the most.
(c) Their mothers.
(d) The people who are happy alone.

5. Who does Kennedy say faces the greatest challenge in life?
(a) Those who involuntarily reach solitude.
(b) Those who never let go.
(c) Those who never become independent.
(d) Those who have nobody to let go of.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Emily Dickinson say the most solemn industry happens?

2. Who wrote We Know This Much?

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

4. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?

5. What degrades one in As Much As You Can?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Secret Lives about?

2. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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

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

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

6. What is Summer at the Beach about?

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

8. What is Somebody's Mother about?

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

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

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