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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. What animal is described in The Female of The Species?

2. Who wrote To Margo?

3. What doe Lady Mary Chudleigh tell women not to do?

4. What kind of poet is Gregory Corso?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Having a Coke With You about?

2. What is The Smaller Orchid about?

3. What is When You Have Forgotten Sunday: the Love Story about?

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

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

6. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

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

8. What is Variation on the Word Sleep about?

9. What is Letter from My Wife about?

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

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 role does symbolism play in these poems, and what are some of the major symbols presented?

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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