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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 the main concern for the couple in Death, Etc.?

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

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

4. How many states away is Ellen Watson's friend?

5. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Patterns about?

3. What is Roses Only about?

4. What is Death, Etc. about?

5. What is The Rhodora about?

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

7. What is We Know This Much about?

8. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

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

10. What is Living 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 does Kennedy deal with the grief in her life, and how has this changed her taste in literature?

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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