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

2. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?

3. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?

4. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Great Lover about?

2. What is Roses Only about?

3. What is Secret Lives about?

4. What message is sent in Grief?

5. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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

7. What is We Know This Much about?

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

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

10. What is Magnificat about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To which of these poems did you relate most and why? What about that particular poem touched you in a personal way?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the analogies shared in these poems, and what are their deeper meanings?

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