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

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

3. During what year is the story "Just a Little One" set?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1932.

4. 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 her lover has gone and she has found herself again.
(c) That she can rely on her friendships.
(d) That her lover has remained true.

5. Why hasn't Garry sent flowers to Mona?
(a) Mona keeps sending the flowers back.
(b) He is angry with Mona.
(c) He does not even know that she is sick.
(d) He knows that Mona does not like flowers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the message behind the poem "Fable"?

3. On what occasion does the hag visit the narrator in the poem "Godmother"?

4. According to the poem "Reuben's Children" what sort of people are cursed?

5. What emotion does the narrator of "Temps Perdu" feel when she sees a laurel tree in May?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hazel Morse lose her own identity in her efforts to please others in the short story "Big Blonde"?

2. How does the narrator of "Lady With a Lamp" make Mona feel worse rather than better?

3. Explain the allusions in the poem "Guinevere At Her Fireside."

4. What is the complaint that is raised in the poem "Penelope"?

5. In the poem "The Last Question," what is the purpose of the italicized lines?

6. Explain the irony in "Ninon de Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday."

7. Explain the allusions in the poem "Prayer for a New Mother."

8. Describe Mr. Cruger's attitude toward his daughter in the story "Horsie."

9. Compare the poems "Bric-A-Brac," "Fulfillment," and "Theory." What do these poems have in common?

10. In the story, "Lady With a Lamp," what is Mona's illness?

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