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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the speaker's body is personified in "The Touch"?
(a) Her foot.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her hand.
(d) Her back.

2. What is the subject of "The Operation"?
(a) Lobotomy.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Amputation.
(d) Biopsy.

3. "Kind Sir: These Woods" is a meditation on becoming what?
(a) An adult.
(b) Lost.
(c) Found.
(d) A child again.

4. Who is the author of The Complete Poems?
(a) Ted Hughes.
(b) Edgar Lee Masters.
(c) Anne Sexton.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

5. How is God portrayed in "For God While Sleeping"?
(a) As a woman.
(b) As a loved one who has recently died.
(c) As a senile old man.
(d) As a newborn infant.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Bells" ponders about the search for love and acceptance from whom?

2. How many poems are in the first part of All My Pretty Ones?

3. How are the poems arranged in Live or Die?

4. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?

5. Who does the author decide to endure the pains of life for in the last poem in Live or Die?

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