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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emily Dickinson's tone in her poem about breaking up?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Happy.
(c) Upset.
(d) Ambivalent.

2. How does Margaret Walker describe her grandmothers in Lineage?
(a) Strong.
(b) All of these.
(c) Abusive.
(d) Kind.

3. Kennedy says marriage is the foundation of ___________.
(a) Families.
(b) Peace.
(c) Society.
(d) Government.

4. What does the woman in The Philosopher wonder about?
(a) Where this man went to in his heart.
(b) How to get this man to love her.
(c) How to break up with this man.
(d) Shy she continues to love this man.

5. Who wrote May I Feel Said He?
(a) William Yeates.
(b) E.E. Cummings.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Christopher Marlowe.

6. What is wrong with the husband in I'm Going to Georgia?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He is cheating.
(c) He is a drunk.
(d) He is sick.

7. What does the person in Song want their lover to stop doing?
(a) Getting their hopes up.
(b) Looking for more.
(c) Putting on airs.
(d) Fighting.

8. What does the man in Protocols hope the sun will burn away?
(a) His footprints.
(b) His lover's anger.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The frost.

9. How is this book separated?
(a) By topic.
(b) By chronology.
(c) By author.
(d) By length.

10. What does the woman in Lilacs love most?
(a) Herself.
(b) Passion.
(c) The lilacs.
(d) Her lover.

11. Where do most of the men work in Night Waitress?
(a) The rail road.
(b) Factories.
(c) Offices.
(d) The Army.

12. What is the woman in At the Café trying to do?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Write a book.
(c) Find her husband.
(d) Move up north.

13. What animal is described in The Female of The Species?
(a) Cobras.
(b) Bears.
(c) Cats.
(d) Wolves.

14. Who wrote In An Iridescent Time?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(c) Ruth Stone.
(d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

15. Who wrote The Philosopher?
(a) Virginia Wolf.
(b) Katherine Garrison.
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Emily Dickinson's poem about breaking up?

2. What did Roger want most when he was with Monika?

3. What is the tone of Lilacs?

4. What is the woman in On Monsieur's Departure unable to cut?

5. Who kills the man in The Eaten Heart?

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