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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. Why is it surprising that the poet wrote Song?
(a) Most of their poems are in German.
(b) Most of their poems are dark.
(c) Most of their poems are couplets.
(d) Most of their poems are very long.

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

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

4. What is steady throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) All of these.
(b) The beat.
(c) The intent.
(d) The rhyming scheme.

5. What kind of mill does the woman in I Want You Woman Up North to Know work at?
(a) A wheat mill.
(b) A chicken factory.
(c) A tobacco plant.
(d) A clothing mill.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Jamesian?

3. Why is the man in Corrina's Going a Maying so urgent?

4. How many levels of meaning are in The Weather Cock Points South?

5. Who wrote I Do Not Love Thee?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Variation on the Word Sleep about?

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

4. What is Worked Late on a Tuesday Night about?

5. What is Code Poem for the French Resistance about?

6. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

7. What is The End about?

8. What is Love's Philosophy about?

9. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

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

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