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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 does Kim Addonizio say women want?

2. What does Jo McDougall invite into her home after a short reprieve?

3. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?

4. Why can't Bernadette Mayer buy her friend what she wants?

5. What must be put away during the most solemn industry according to Emily Dickinson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Great Lover about?

2. What is Secret Lives about?

3. What is Roses Only about?

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

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

6. What is Living about?

7. What is Patterns about?

8. What message is sent in Grief?

9. What is The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law about?

10. What is The Widow's Lament in Springtime 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 message is Kennedy trying to send about marriage in this book, and where do you think her ideas about marriage came from?

Essay Topic 3

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times in a number of different poems. What are some of these instances, and how are these examples different from each other?

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