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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the weather in "Song for a Lady"?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Foggy.
(c) Sunny.
(d) Rainy.

4. What is the speaker doing in "The Fortress"?
(a) Making dinner.
(b) Praying.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Bathing her child.

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

6. In what point of view is "It Is a Spring Afternoon" written?
(a) Second-person.
(b) First-person.
(c) Third-person.
(d) It is unclear.

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

8. When does "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman" take place?
(a) In the middle of an affair.
(b) At a chance meeting between a mistress and her lover's wife.
(c) At the end of an affair.
(d) At the beginning of an affair.

9. The poem "You, Doctor Martin" puts the reader where?
(a) Into the author's surgical suite.
(b) Into Bedlam.
(c) In her empty home.
(d) In Taft Cemetery and Memorial Gardens.

10. What conclusion does the speaker come to in "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"?
(a) She can do better.
(b) Her lover will always return to her.
(c) Her lover will leave his wife.
(d) She was a temporary indulgence.

11. What is the purpose of "Somewhere in Africa"?
(a) An expression of the author's desire to travel.
(b) A meditation on mental escapism.
(c) A letter while on safari.
(d) A eulogistic farewell.

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

13. Where is "The Double Image" set?
(a) New England.
(b) Paris.
(c) A hospital.
(d) San Francisco.

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

15. Who is the speaker with in "The Fortress"?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) She is alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point of view is "The House" written in?

2. What does the speaker pledge in "The Fortress"?

3. What kind of accident is the subject of "Pain for a Daughter"?

4. What changes does "The Double Image" follow?

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

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