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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman in At the Café trying to do?

2. How does the woman in The Philosopher think she should love?

3. In A Type of Loss, what does the woman lose when she breaks up?

4. What is steady throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?

5. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Youth about?

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

3. What is The End about?

4. What is The Smaller Orchid about?

5. What is My Last Duchess about?

6. What is Having a Coke With You about?

7. What is White Heliotrope about?

8. What is Love's Philosophy about?

9. What is Defining Worlds about?

10. What is Symptom Recital about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Kennedy have such a strong connection to poetry, and how does this change the selection her poems in this collection?

Essay Topic 2

Laughter and happiness are common themes found in this book. Where do these come into play, and how are the poems with those themes different from the others in this book?

Essay Topic 3

How does Kennedy deal with the grief in her life, and how has this changed her taste in literature?

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