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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. When does Emily Dickinson say the most solemn industry happens?

2. Who wrote You Begin?

3. What helped Kennedy's mother deal with the losses in her life?

4. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?

5. Where does steady pleasure come from in Fatigue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Secret Lives about?

4. What is Roses Only about?

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

6. What does the narrator of Remember want?

7. What is Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain about?

8. What is Patterns about?

9. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

10. What is Somebody's Mother about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the main examples of irony from these poems? How do these moments of irony change the tone of those poems?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What message is Kennedy trying to send about marriage in this book, and where do you think her ideas about marriage came from?

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