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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Love Poems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play is the source for the title All My Pretty Ones?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) The Taming of the Shrew.
(c) Richard III.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. What changes does "The Double Image" follow?
(a) Family.
(b) Career.
(c) Life.
(d) Seasonal.

3. Who does the speaker identify with in "Consorting With Angels"?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Mary Magdalen.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

4. What is the second poem in Part 5 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "Old."
(b) "Water."
(c) "The Hangman."
(d) "Woman with Girdle."

5. What conclusion does the speaker come to in "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"?
(a) She can do better.
(b) Her lover will leave his wife.
(c) She was a temporary indulgence.
(d) Her lover will always return to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the speaker of "It Is a Spring Afternoon" waiting?

2. "Loving the Killer" takes place where?

3. What part of the speaker's body is personified in "The Touch"?

4. When does "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman" take place?

5. What does the speaker cast off in the poem "Self in 1958"?

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