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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. Kennedy says parents become dependent on ____________.
(a) Their children.
(b) Their God.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their spouses.

2. What brought about early bedtime in Grown-up?
(a) Tantrums.
(b) Sickness.
(c) The sun.
(d) Father.

3. In A Poem of Friendship, what do friends not need in order to love each other?
(a) History.
(b) Sex.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Time.

4. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?
(a) Sanity.
(b) Love.
(c) Time.
(d) Innocence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

2. How does Kennedy describe having children?

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

4. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?

5. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is "to my last period" about?

5. What is Magnificat about?

6. What is Living about?

7. What is The Great Lover about?

8. What is The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law about?

9. What is Somebody's Mother about?

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

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