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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main focus of Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) The death of the author's grandparents.
(b) The death of the author's cat.
(c) The death of the author's parents.
(d) The death of the author's creativity.

2. What is the tone of "Moon Song, Woman Song"?
(a) Dreamy.
(b) Loving.
(c) Nightmarish.
(d) Hard.

3. How many poems are in Part 3 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

4. "Music Swims Back To Me" is a reflection on the speaker's immersion in what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Family.
(c) Mental collapse.
(d) Medical interventions.

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

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

7. "With Mercy For the Greedy" makes a statement about art as what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Sin.
(d) Forgiveness.

8. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?
(a) A nursery rhyme.
(b) The title of the book.
(c) A song by Sara Bareilles.
(d) A book about the solar system.

9. What myth does the author rethink in "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Icarus.
(d) Persephone.

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

11. Where does the woman in "Moon Song, Woman Song" live?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Nighttime.
(c) Dusk.
(d) On the star nearest to the moon.

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

13. What is the subject of "Elizabeth Gone"?
(a) Birth.
(b) Sex.
(c) Reunion.
(d) Death.

14. In what year were the letters written that inspired "Walking in Paris"?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1910.

15. What type of poem is "For the Year of the Insane"?
(a) A blurb.
(b) A prayer.
(c) A eulogy.
(d) An epitaph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play is the source for the title All My Pretty Ones?

2. What is the title of the author's first book of poetry?

3. What is the purpose of "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"?

4. The poem "You, Doctor Martin" puts the reader where?

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

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