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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 is the main concern for the couple in Death, Etc.?

2. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?

3. What choices does Kennedy say are the most important?

4. To what is the person in Sense of Something Coming compared?

5. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Living about?

3. What is Roses Only about?

4. What is Death, Etc. about?

5. What is The Book of Ruth, 1:16-17 about?

6. What is Summer at the Beach about?

7. What is Secret Lives about?

8. What is Magnificat about?

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

10. What is The Rhodora about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the main examples of irony from these poems? How do these moments of irony change the tone of those poems?

Essay Topic 2

Solitude was something that Kennedy found very important in her life. Where did she find it, and how did this solitude affect her writing style?

Essay Topic 3

What are the good and bad things listed in this book about marriage?

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