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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In To My Dear and Loving Husband, how does the woman hope to stay with her husband after death?

2. Who wrote May I Feel Said He?

3. What does Caroline explain in each section?

4. How does the man in When He Pressed His Lips feel after his affair?

5. Where does the woman in I'm Going to Georgia want to live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is My Last Duchess about?

2. What does "You must know that I do not love and that I love you" relate?

3. What is To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage about?

4. What is Letter from My Wife about?

5. What is Code Poem for the French Resistance about?

6. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

7. What is Symptom Recital about?

8. Why does Adam say he ate the apple in Paradise Lost?

9. What is After Making Love We Hear Footstep about?

10. What is Defining Worlds about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kennedy deal with the grief in her life, and how has this changed her taste in literature?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the different ideas presented in this book about mother and child relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Kennedy have such a strong connection to poetry, and how does this change the selection her poems in this collection?

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