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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 deepest secret shared in I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?

2. Who wrote Hero and Lysander?

3. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?

4. How does Margaret Walker describe her grandmothers in Lineage?

5. When was Roger McGough with Monika?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is When You Have Forgotten Sunday: the Love Story about?

2. What is Come to the Orchard in Spring?

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

4. What is It Is Marvelous... about?

5. What is Defining Worlds about?

6. What is Little Clown, My Heart about?

7. What is Letter from My Wife about?

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

9. What is At the Café about?

10. What is The Age of Great Vocations about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nature and its power is a huge theme in this book. What are some of the main examples of this theme and how does this affect the tone of the poems?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the different ideas presented in this book about mother and child relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Solitude was something that Kennedy found very important in her life. Where did she find it, and how did this solitude affect her writing style?

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