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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where is "The Double Image" set?
(a) Paris.
(b) New England.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) A hospital.
2. What is the second poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "The Truth the Dead Know."
(b) "All My Pretty Ones."
(c) "Lament."
(d) "Old Dwarf Heart."
3. What award was given to the author for Live or Die?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) The Edgar Allen Poe Prize.
(c) The Pulitzer Prize.
(d) The Pushcart Prize.
4. Where is the speaker of "It Is a Spring Afternoon" waiting?
(a) Under a bridge.
(b) In bed.
(c) In a tree.
(d) On a bridge.
5. Part I of the author's first book of poetry deals with the trauma of what?
(a) Her hospitalization.
(b) Her first Christmas alone.
(c) Her struggle with radiation treatment.
(d) Losing custody of her children.
6. Who is the speaker traveling to see in the poem "Flight"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her husband.
7. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?
(a) Eucharistic Adoration.
(b) Holy confession.
(c) The counsel of a priest.
(d) Solace from the Blessed Mother.
8. What is the time frame in which the poems of Live or Die were written?
(a) 1960-1962.
(b) 1960-1965.
(c) 1958-1962.
(d) 1962-1966.
9. What is the tone of "Sylvia's Death"?
(a) Fear.
(b) Peace.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Jealousy.
10. Who is Doctor Martin?
(a) A friend of the author's.
(b) A hospice doctor.
(c) An oncologist.
(d) A psychotherapist.
11. What is explored in "The Double Image"?
(a) Love.
(b) Legacy.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Duty.
12. Who does the speaker encounter on a ferry in "Letter Written On a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"?
(a) A clown.
(b) A priest.
(c) A childhood friend.
(d) Nuns.
13. "Loving the Killer" takes place where?
(a) In a kitchen.
(b) On the street.
(c) On a safari.
(d) In the woods.
14. "In Celebration of My Uterus" celebrates what?
(a) Passion.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) Sexual gratification.
15. "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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What must be found in "Kind Sir: These Woods"?
2. What is the title of the author's first book of poetry?
3. In what point of view is "It Is a Spring Afternoon" written?
4. What changes does "The Double Image" follow?
5. How many poems are in Part 3 of All My Pretty Ones?
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