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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 does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?

2. What is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?

3. What is traded for dolls in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

4. What is the friend's name in Letter to N.Y?

5. Whom does Blake find dead in a garden one morning in Poison Tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of Remember want?

2. What is The Book of Ruth, 1:16-17 about?

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

4. What is Patterns about?

5. What is Roses Only about?

6. What is Summer at the Beach about?

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

8. What is The Rhodora about?

9. What is Death, Etc. about?

10. What is Magnificat about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Religion was a theme that was touched on a number of times in this book. Where did this theme appear, and what are some of the different ways this theme was introduced?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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