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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How to Live.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the ritual in Hairwashing described by the daughter?
(a) Pointless.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Uplifting.
(d) Strange.

2. How does Sharon Olds feel about her son in Socks?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She resents him.
(d) She regrets having him.

3. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?
(a) Adoration.
(b) Approval.
(c) Respect.
(d) A dress.

4. Kennedy says parents become dependent on ____________.
(a) All of these.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their God.
(d) Their spouses.

5. To what does the person in Song compare love?
(a) A pear.
(b) An apple.
(c) A fig.
(d) A cherry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the fruit in June Light?

2. What does Wendy Cope think little else of?

3. Where do most of the men work in Night Waitress?

4. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?

5. What does Dorothy Parker warn women of vowing?

(see the answer key)

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