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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 Sharon Olds feel about her son in Socks?

2. Who wrote You Begin?

3. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?

4. What is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?

5. Who wrote The Summer Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "to my last period" about?

2. What is Patterns about?

3. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

4. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

5. What is Roses Only about?

6. What is Living about?

7. What message is sent in Grief?

8. What is if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have about?

9. What is The Great Lover about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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

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