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

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

3. Who does Kennedy say faces the greatest challenge in life?

4. Kennedy says parents become dependent on ____________.

5. What happens to George Santayana after the death of his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

2. What is Somebody's Mother about?

3. What is The Great Lover about?

4. What is Summer at the Beach about?

5. What is Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain about?

6. What is Living about?

7. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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

9. What is The Widow's Lament in Springtime about?

10. What is We Know This Much about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

How does Kennedy deal with the grief in her life, and how has this changed her taste in literature?

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