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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 kind of love does Wendy Cope describe?

2. When does true love come about according to Hero and Lysander?

3. How long is Weaponed Woman?

4. Who introduces each section?

5. What color is the flower in The Weather Cock Points South?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is My Last Duchess about?

2. What is Having a Coke With You about?

3. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

4. What is Little Clown, My Heart about?

5. What is After Making Love We Hear Footstep about?

6. What does Proverbs 31:10-31 say?

7. What is Symptom Recital about?

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

9. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

10. What is To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What has changed about women's roles in work throughout history, and how are these changes presented in these poems?

Essay Topic 2

How were the themes of life and death shown together? Why do you think the editor chose to present these themes in tangent with each other?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in these poems, and what are some of the major symbols presented?

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