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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What part of the speaker's body is personified in "The Touch"?
(a) Her neck.
(b) Her back.
(c) Her foot.
(d) Her hand.

4. What is the last poem in Live or Die?
(a) "Self in 1958."
(b) "Die."
(c) "The Addict."
(d) "Live."

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

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

7. How is marriage portrayed in "Man and Wife"?
(a) Playing house eternally.
(b) A blessed escape.
(c) A career like any other.
(d) A dismal trap.

8. What is the subject of "Barefoot"?
(a) Honeymoon.
(b) Sexual tease.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) A forbidden rendevous.

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

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

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

12. What does "Elizabeth Gone" explore as the possibility of an escape?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Death.
(c) Education.
(d) Parenthood.

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

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

15. Who bathes in the river in "It Is a Spring Afternoon"?
(a) The speaker.
(b) The speaker's husband.
(c) Blind men.
(d) The speaker's lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?

2. What does the speaker cast off in the poem "Self in 1958"?

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

4. Who is the subject of "Somewhere in Africa"?

5. Who does the speaker identify with in "Consorting With Angels"?

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