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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. Why can't the woman in The Widow's Lament in Springtime feel happy in the spring?

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

3. Who wrote We Know This Much?

4. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?

5. What game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Rhodora about?

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

3. What is The Great Lover about?

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

5. What is "to my last period" about?

6. What message is sent in Grief?

7. What is Living about?

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

9. What is We Know This Much about?

10. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the poems in this book separated, and what does this say about the editor?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the main ideas presented about beauty in this book?

Essay Topic 3

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

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