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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 what style are the section introductions written?
(a) Prose.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Couplets.
(d) Lists.

2. How long is Weaponed Woman?
(a) 2 pages.
(b) 2 stanzas.
(c) 20 words.
(d) 2 lines.

3. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?
(a) The orchard.
(b) The window.
(c) The radio.
(d) The wind.

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

5. What does Rudyard Kipling say over and over about The Female of The Species?
(a) It is more deadly than the male.
(b) It lives not in fear.
(c) It can protect better.
(d) It has a stronger heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Valentine rhymed with in A Very Valentine?

2. What is the awkward encounter described by Gregory Corso in Marriage?

3. What does the woman in The Eaten Heart swear to never do again at the end of the poem?

4. What does Christina Rossetti compare her heart to?

5. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is It Is Marvelous... about?

2. What is Having a Coke With You about?

3. What is the theme in How Do I Love Thee?

4. What is The End about?

5. What does Proverbs 31:10-31 say?

6. What does "You must know that I do not love and that I love you" relate?

7. What is What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why about?

8. What is Lilacs about?

9. What is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour about?

10. What is Youth about?

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