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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 Rita Dove ready to fall in love with?

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

3. What is the friend's name in Letter to N.Y?

4. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?

5. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message is sent in Grief?

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

3. What is Somebody's Mother about?

4. What is The Great Lover about?

5. What is Living about?

6. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

7. What is Death, Etc. about?

8. What is Patterns about?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were the themes of life and death shown together? Why do you think the editor chose to present these themes in tangent with each other?

Essay Topic 2

Laughter and happiness are common themes found in this book. Where do these come into play, and how are the poems with those themes different from the others in this book?

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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