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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Posthumously Published Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the focus of the author's version of "Red Riding Hood"?
(a) The relationship between Red Riding Hood and the woodsman.
(b) The improbability of the outcome.
(c) The grandmother.
(d) The wolf.

2. Where else is a rare and exciting development in the author's style seen, other than in Posthumously Published Work?
(a) The Awful Rowing Toward God.
(b) Transformations.
(c) Her personal journals.
(d) To Bedlam and Back.

3. What is the second poem in Part 5 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "Old."
(b) "Woman with Girdle."
(c) "Water."
(d) "The Hangman."

4. How is marriage portrayed in "Man and Wife"?
(a) Playing house eternally.
(b) A blessed escape.
(c) A career like any other.
(d) A dismal trap.

5. "The Silence" explains the motivation to write as an attempt to remain occupied so that what remains at bay?
(a) Reminders of dreams forgotten.
(b) Reminders of responsibilities.
(c) Reminders of a lost love.
(d) Reminders of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem is the companion poem to "The Rowing Endeth"?

2. Where is the blame assigned in "The Earth Falls Down"?

3. How many poems are in Part 2 of the author's first book of poetry?

4. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?

5. What kind of poems are the collection "O Ye Tongues"?

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