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

2. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

3. Who wrote High School Senior?

4. What happens to George Santayana after the death of his wife?

5. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

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

3. What is Living about?

4. What does the narrator of Remember want?

5. What is The Great Lover about?

6. What is The Rhodora about?

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

8. What is Magnificat about?

9. What is We Know This Much about?

10. What message is sent in Grief?

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 are some of the main ideas presented about beauty in this book?

Essay Topic 3

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

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