View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helped Kennedy deal with the losses in her life?

2. What kind of jewelery is mentioned in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

3. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?

4. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?

5. Who wrote We Know This Much?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

3. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

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

5. What is We Know This Much about?

6. What is Roses Only about?

7. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

8. What is Summer at the Beach about?

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

10. What does the narrator of Remember want?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Laughter and happiness are common themes found in this book. Where do these come into play, and how are the poems with those themes different from the others in this book?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 631 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample