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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. When does true love come about according to Hero and Lysander?

2. To what does the person in Song compare love?

3. What literary device is used heavily in To Margo?

4. Who wrote I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?

5. What color is the flower in The Weather Cock Points South?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Come to the Orchard in Spring?

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

3. What is Letter from My Wife about?

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

5. What is Youth about?

6. What is Well I Have Lost You about?

7. What is the theme in How Do I Love Thee?

8. What is At the Café about?

9. What does Proverbs 31:10-31 say?

10. What is Variation on the Word Sleep about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Nature and its power is a huge theme in this book. What are some of the main examples of this theme and how does this affect the tone of the poems?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the main examples of irony from these poems? How do these moments of irony change the tone of those poems?

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