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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is explored in "The Double Image"?
(a) Abandonment.
(b) Legacy.
(c) Duty.
(d) Love.
2. Who is the subject of "Your Face on the Dog's Neck"?
(a) The speaker herself.
(b) The speaker's cat.
(c) The speaker's daughter.
(d) The speaker's lover.
3. "The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts" is a poetic dialogue between the speaker and who?
(a) Her husband's lover.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her lover.
4. What is the author's relationship with the subject of "Somewhere in Africa"?
(a) Student.
(b) Friend.
(c) Colleague.
(d) Wife.
5. How are the poems arranged in Live or Die?
(a) In an order selected by the author's daughter.
(b) Alphabetically.
(c) The order in which they were written.
(d) Randomly.
Short Answer Questions
1. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?
2. What family relationship is explored in Part 2 of the author's first book of poetry?
3. "With Mercy For the Greedy" makes a statement about art as what?
4. Where is the speaker of "It Is a Spring Afternoon" waiting?
5. What is the first poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Sexton's retelling of the Icarus myth in "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph."
2. Explain the use of animals in the poem "Loving the Killer."
3. What does the preface of Live or Die reveal about the poems in it?
4. Why do you think Part 2 of To Bedlam and Part Way Back only contains three poems?
5. What are the two major themes dealt with in Live or Die, and how are they dealt with?
6. How does the collection Love Poems fit in with Sexton's other work?
7. In All My Pretty Ones, Sexton uses more of a third person narrative approach with some of the poems. Why would this be difficult in confessional poetry?
8. Explain the poem "Suicide Note."
9. One theme in All the Pretty Ones is the idea that poetry is catharsis. Why might poetry be catharsis for Sexton?
10. What is the meaning of the title "The Fortress"?
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