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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the message behind the poem "Fable"?
(a) Former lovers can never be true friends.
(b) Never give up on a true love.
(c) Revenge is never the answer.
(d) If you lose one love, others will be close behind.

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

3. How long have Mr. and Mrs. Weldon been married in the story "Too Bad"?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Seven years.

4. What does the narrator of "Cherry White" think of whenever she sees a cherry bough or a flowering tree?
(a) Spring.
(b) Children.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Her lost love.

5. What three poets are the subject of "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature"?
(a) John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.
(b) William Wordsworth, William Blake, and John Keats.
(c) John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.
(d) Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Walt Whitman.

6. In "Autumn Valentine" what experience did the narrator have in May?
(a) A love for nature.
(b) A new-found love.
(c) A broken heart.
(d) Death.

7. Hazel Morse prides herself most on what characteristic?
(a) Her tiny waist.
(b) Her large bust.
(c) Her small feet.
(d) Her deep blue eyes.

8. In the story "Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street," what are the narrator and her husband looking for in a servant?
(a) Someone who is neat and well-dressed.
(b) Someone who perform his duties in quiet.
(c) Someone who has experience in entertaining company.
(d) Someone who will keep them company.

9. According to "From a Letter From Lesbia," why should you not take a poet as a lover?
(a) All poets are poor.
(b) All of them are strange.
(c) Poets are unreliable.
(d) They are all too serious.

10. What emotion does the narrator of "Temps Perdu" feel when she sees a laurel tree in May?
(a) Anger.
(b) Joy.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sorrow.

11. How do Ed and Hazel's other friends respond when Hazel is feeling sad?
(a) They listen to her troubles and lend her emotional support.
(b) They suggest that she should she a therapist.
(c) They never know when she is sad because she hides her emotions.
(d) They tell her to cheer up and stop being a spoil sport.

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

13. According to the poem "Solace," why do people not worry over the broken stem of a rose?
(a) Roses are not an important flower.
(b) Roses do not feed a family.
(c) There are many other roses blooming.
(d) People are too busy to notice.

14. What does Mona say is wrong with her?
(a) She has influenza.
(b) It is just her nerves.
(c) She has a broken heart.
(d) She has ptomaine poisoning.

15. What does the narrator wish for in the poem "Frustration"?
(a) That she had a way of killing all the people that bother her.
(b) That she would always be prettier than the women around her.
(c) That she could find the perfect red dress.
(d) That her lover would return to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Salome's Dancing-Lesson," who does not need dance lessons?

2. Why does Gerald Cruger avoid looking at Miss Wilmarth in the story "Horsie"?

3. What does the narrator say would help Mona?

4. In "The Willow," during what month is the earth "sweet" and "young."

5. In "The Little Hours," what time does the narrator wake?

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