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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the speaker of "It Is a Spring Afternoon" waiting?
(a) In a tree.
(b) In bed.
(c) Under a bridge.
(d) On a bridge.

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

3. Who does "The Starry Night" borrow a quote from?
(a) Degas.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Monet.

4. What is explored in "The Double Image"?
(a) Legacy.
(b) Love.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Duty.

5. What is the subject of "Your Face on the Dog's Neck" doing?
(a) Napping with the dog.
(b) Fighting with the dog.
(c) Sitting with the dog.
(d) Playing with the dog.

6. "The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts" is a poetic dialogue between the speaker and who?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her husband's lover.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her friend.

7. In "For Eleanor Boylan Talking With God," what does the speaker witness a woman doing?
(a) Dying.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Praying.
(d) Laughing.

8. What must be found in "Kind Sir: These Woods"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Oneself.
(c) Maturity.
(d) Childlike innocence.

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

10. How many poems are in Part 2 of the author's first book of poetry?
(a) Seven.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Fifteen.

11. How many parts is "The Double Image" divided into?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

12. In what year did the author receive an award for Live or Die?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1970.

13. What is the purpose of "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"?
(a) To entice the lover to stay longer.
(b) To say goodbye.
(c) To give an ultamatum.
(d) To remind the lover where his loyalties lie.

14. What is the title of the author's first book of poetry?
(a) Elizabeth Gone.
(b) The Moss of His Skin.
(c) Kind Sir: These Woods.
(d) To Bedlam and Part Way Back.

15. What is the second poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "All My Pretty Ones."
(b) "Lament."
(c) "The Truth the Dead Know."
(d) "Old Dwarf Heart."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sister poem to "The Double Image"?

2. Why is the speaker hospitalized in "The Break"?

3. Who is the subject of "Your Face on the Dog's Neck"?

4. What is the time frame in which the poems of Live or Die were written?

5. "Loving the Killer" takes place where?

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