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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 game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?

2. What is the tone of Bra Shopping?

3. What does Kennedy say mothers do to give their children power?

4. What does the person in Keeping Things Whole realize when he is alone?

5. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

2. What is When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone about?

3. What message is sent in Grief?

4. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

5. What is We Know This Much about?

6. What is The Great Lover about?

7. What is Magnificat about?

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

9. What is Living about?

10. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do these moments affect the tone of those poems?

Essay Topic 2

To which of these poems did you relate most and why? What about that particular poem touched you in a personal way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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