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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say would help Mona?
(a) Getting married and having children.
(b) A big bowl of chicken soup.
(c) Getting dressed and going out for the evening.
(d) Calling Garry up on the phone.

2. Who is Mrs. Hofstadter who lives on Josephine Street?
(a) The woman who places Horace with the narrator.
(b) The woman who leases the bungalow to the narrator and her husband.
(c) Horace's first wife.
(d) Horace's former employer.

3. What kind of horse does the narrator want to get?
(a) One with a blue eye.
(b) Just a little one.
(c) A black one.
(d) A cart horse.

4. How does Herbie react when Hazel begins to drink Scotch?
(a) He is happy that she is loosening up.
(b) He says that Scotch is not lady-like.
(c) He does not know since she drinks in secret.
(d) He is worried that she is drinking too much.

5. How long has the girl in the short story "The Last Tea" been waiting for the young man?
(a) Forty minutes.
(b) Over an hour.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Five minutes.

6. According to the poem " Two-Volume Novel," what has stopped the sun and moon from shining?
(a) The narrator has reached the end of her life.
(b) The end of the world has arrived.
(c) The narrator's love interest does not love her back.
(d) The dead of winter has cast a cloud over everything.

7. How does Mrs. Murdock feel about her dress as she leaves her visit with Miss Noyes and Lily Wynton?
(a) She feels a tenderness toward her clothes because they are her own.
(b) The dress makes her feel like an actress on stage.
(c) She wants to alter it to look more like Lily Wynton's dress.
(d) She is embarrassed by the plain style and color.

8. What has become a "bitterness" for the narrator if "Iseult of Brittany"?
(a) Her frail cup.
(b) Her lost love.
(c) Her deep pride.
(d) Her lovely hands.

9. Which historical figure keeps intruding upon the narrator's thoughts?
(a) Sartre.
(b) La Rochefoucauld.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) De Tocqueville.

10. According to "Salome's Dancing-Lesson," who does not need dance lessons?
(a) A woman who is too old for dancing.
(b) A woman who dances for a purpose.
(c) A woman who feels the music in her heart.
(d) A woman whose body is young and cool.

11. Why does the narrator in "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning" not mind stepping on a worm?
(a) She sees no purpose in their existence.
(b) The worm's body will feed the earth.
(c) She knows that worms will devour her when she is dead.
(d) Thousands more live beneath the earth.

12. How much time passes between the time that Horace leaves the narrator's home and the time that he calls the house?
(a) One week.
(b) One day.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) Two hours.

13. What does the narrator of "Guinevere At Her Fireside" say about the bravest man?
(a) He cannot be trusted.
(b) He is cunning warrior.
(c) He has the littlest brains.
(d) He makes a noble king.

14. What animal is described in the poem "Parable for a Certain Virgin"?
(a) A weasel.
(b) A horse.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A porcupine.

15. For what is the narrator of "Sonnet For the End of a Sequence" grateful?
(a) That her poems will last beyond her own death.
(b) That she can rely on her friendships.
(c) That her lover has gone and she has found herself again.
(d) That her lover has remained true.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Rhyme Against the Living," who is lucky?

2. According to the poem "Solace," why do people not worry over the broken stem of a rose?

3. After Herbie leaves, how much time passes before Hazel hears any news about him?

4. What does the poem "Superfluous Advice" suggest about gossip?

5. Where does the narrator meet the fighters in "Soldiers of the Republic"?

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