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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. What is the friend's name in Letter to N.Y?
(a) Louise.
(b) Lana.
(c) Lily.
(d) Laura.

2. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) His sister.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

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

4. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote We Know This Much?

2. How does Christina Rossetti want to be remembered?

3. Why does the person in We Know This Much know that death is not a good thing?

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

5. Where does steady pleasure come from in Fatigue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

2. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

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

4. What is Magnificat about?

5. What is We Know This Much about?

6. What is Somebody's Mother about?

7. What is The Rhodora about?

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

9. What is The Widow's Lament in Springtime about?

10. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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