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

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

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

4. 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 dead.
(d) Her friend is sick.

5. What does Kennedy say mothers do to give their children power?
(a) Teach them.
(b) Love them.
(c) All of these.
(d) Believe in them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?

3. What is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?

4. How many states away is Ellen Watson's friend?

5. What is the friend's name in Letter to N.Y?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Rhodora about?

2. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

3. What is We Know This Much about?

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

5. What is Patterns about?

6. What is Magnificat about?

7. What is Living about?

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

9. What is The Great Lover about?

10. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

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