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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 does Kim Addonizio say women want?

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

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

4. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

5. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is We Know This Much about?

2. What is Patterns about?

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

4. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

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

6. What is The Great Lover about?

7. What is The Rhodora about?

8. What is Death, Etc. about?

9. What is Secret Lives about?

10. What is Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain 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

What role does symbolism play in these poems, and what are some of the major symbols presented?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do these moments affect the tone of those poems?

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