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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the subject of "Your Face on the Dog's Neck"?
(a) The speaker's lover.
(b) The speaker's cat.
(c) The speaker herself.
(d) The speaker's daughter.

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

3. 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 creativity.
(c) The death of the author's cat.
(d) The death of the author's parents.

4. "In Celebration of My Uterus" celebrates what?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Sexual gratification.
(d) Passion.

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

6. "For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further" is a defense against whom?
(a) The author's doctor.
(b) The author's teacher.
(c) The author's father.
(d) The author's mother.

7. "Torn Down From Glory Daily" describes an encounter with a group of what?
(a) Crows.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Gulls.

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

9. How many sections are in "The Operation"?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

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

11. What family relationship is explored in Part 2 of the author's first book of poetry?
(a) Husband-wife.
(b) Mother-daughter.
(c) Father-daughter.
(d) Mother-son.

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

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

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

15. Who is "For the Year of the Insane" directed to?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) John Hughes.
(d) Ted Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Kind Sir: These Woods" is a meditation on becoming what?

2. Who does the speaker encounter on a ferry in "Letter Written On a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"?

3. Part I of the author's first book of poetry deals with the trauma of what?

4. What is the second poem in Part 5 of All My Pretty Ones?

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

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