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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 does William Blake want Hayley to be his enemy?

2. When does the heart go forth in The Heart of a Woman?

3. What happens in each stanza of Nobody Knows But Mother?

4. What is Rita Dove ready to fall in love with?

5. What does Kim Addonizio say women want?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Death, Etc. about?

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

5. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

6. What is The Rhodora about?

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

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

9. What is Somebody's Mother about?

10. What does the narrator of Remember want?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the different ideas about making love stated in the poems in this book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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