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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. How does the woman in The Philosopher think she should love?

2. What is Valentine rhymed with in A Very Valentine?

3. Who wrote Hero and Lysander?

4. Who wrote To Margo?

5. What happens to the fruit in June Light?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why about?

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

3. What is Symptom Recital about?

4. What is Youth about?

5. What is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour about?

6. What is Having a Coke With You about?

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

8. What is Well I Have Lost You about?

9. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

10. What is At the Café about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Solitude was something that Kennedy found very important in her life. Where did she find it, and how did this solitude affect her writing style?

Essay Topic 2

How were the themes of life and death shown together? Why do you think the editor chose to present these themes in tangent with each other?

Essay Topic 3

How are the poems in this book separated, and what does this say about the editor?

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