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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 the title of the first part of The Book of Folly?
(a) "The Jesus Papers."
(b) "Twenty Poems."
(c) "Part the First."
(d) "Thirty Poems."
2. Who is "Mother and Daughter" addressed to?
(a) Joy.
(b) Claire.
(c) Marie.
(d) Linda.
3. "The Hex" describes the connection between the speaker's inability to appreciate happiness and her relationship to who?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.
4. Who visits the speaker in "Sweeney"?
(a) A newspaper reporter.
(b) The speaker's sister.
(c) A press agent.
(d) The speaker's cousin.
5. "Rats Live On No Evil Star" is a revision of what Biblical story?
(a) Joseph and his coat of colors.
(b) The story of Job.
(c) Daniel in the lions' den.
(d) Adam and Eve.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of the poem "Rats Live On No Evil Star" based on?
2. How many parts is The Book of Folly divided into?
3. "Hansel and Gretel" is about whose wild obsession?
4. What poem personifies death as a hurried traveler?
5. What poem is the companion poem to "The Rowing Endeth"?
Short Essay Questions
1. When was The Death Notebooks published? How does this affect the poems in the collection?
2. Why does The Awful Rowing Toward God begin with the poem "Rowing"?
3. Explain Sexton's revision of "Rapunzel."
4. Explain the premise of Transformations, and explain the title.
5. What is the source material for "The Jesus Papers?" How does Sexton use this source material?
6. How does Sexton view her poetry in relation to her faith?
7. How does Sexton deal with Christianity in "The Jesus Papers"?
8. Why might Sexton's poem "Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)" have special significance for her?
9. Where does Sexton search for God in The Awful Rowing Toward God? Does she find him?
10. How is The Book of Folly set up?
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