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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote To His Mistress Going to Bed?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Andrew Marvell.
(c) John Donne.
(d) William Yeates.

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

3. Why is the man in Corrina's Going a Maying so urgent?
(a) Spring is dying.
(b) He wants to get married.
(c) His lover is sick.
(d) He is sick.

4. Why does the person in We Know This Much know that death is not a good thing?
(a) The gods don't die.
(b) It feels too scary.
(c) There is no proof.
(d) She had a dream.

5. What helped Kennedy's mother deal with the losses in her life?
(a) Nature.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Religion.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is traded for dolls in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

2. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?

3. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?

4. How long is Weaponed Woman?

5. What does Emily Dickinson compare herself to?

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