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

2. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?
(a) Her children.
(b) The yard.
(c) Her art.
(d) The housework.

3. To what does Linda Pastan compare babies?
(a) Trees.
(b) Birds.
(c) Beets.
(d) Dreams.

4. Why can't Bernadette Mayer buy her friend what she wants?
(a) She has no money.
(b) Her friend is sick.
(c) Her friend is dead.
(d) She is too far away.

5. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?
(a) Middle aged.
(b) Young.
(c) Inexperienced.
(d) Old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?

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

3. How does Kennedy describe the person she talks about in the introduction to beauty?

4. Whom does Kennedy say everyone wants to be around?

5. What is the main concern for the couple in Death, Etc.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Secret Lives about?

2. What does the narrator of Remember want?

3. What is The Great Lover about?

4. What is The Book of Ruth, 1:16-17 about?

5. What is Magnificat about?

6. What is The Rhodora about?

7. What is if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have about?

8. What is When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone about?

9. What is I Stepped from Plank to Plank about?

10. What message is sent in Grief?

(see the answer keys)

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