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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Part I of the author's first book of poetry deals with the trauma of what?
(a) Her struggle with radiation treatment.
(b) Her first Christmas alone.
(c) Her hospitalization.
(d) Losing custody of her children.

3. What is the speaker addicted to in "The Addict"?
(a) Self-mutilation.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Prescription pills.
(d) Alcohol.

4. "The Bells" ponders about the search for love and acceptance from whom?
(a) A father figure.
(b) God.
(c) A childhood friend.
(d) A mother figure.

5. What is the first poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "Lament."
(b) "All My Pretty Ones."
(c) "The Truth the Dead Know."
(d) "The Black Art."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does "Eighteen Days Without You" take place?

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

3. In what point of view is "It Is a Spring Afternoon" written?

4. Who does the speaker's daughter cry out for when she is in an accident in "Pain for a Daughter"?

5. "Music Swims Back To Me" presents an irony of the freedom where?

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