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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 tone of Bra Shopping?

2. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

3. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?

4. Who wrote You Begin?

5. Whom does Seamus Haney write to in In Memoriam MKH (1911-1984)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

8. What is The Great Lover about?

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

What message is Kennedy trying to send about marriage in this book, and where do you think her ideas about marriage came from?

Essay Topic 3

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

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