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Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were American poets who were friends for thirty years and were possibly romantically involved.

Mary Oliver’s poetry often explored the link between nature and the spiritual world.

The speaker of “The Revenant” is which of the following?

In “Cathedral,” what did Robert request from the narrator’s wife on the last day of her employment?

Match the author to the statement that is true about him or her.

In Act One of Death of a Salesman, when Biff and Happy confront their mother about Willy’s seemingly incoherent babblings, Linda asks her sons to treat their father more kindly because he has had difficulties at work. What has happened to Willy at work that shocks Biff and Happy?

In this poem, the poet remembers their father’s saying, “Some things never leave a person.” The author’s Chinese heritage plays a large part in the poem.

From which work is the following excerpt taken? “Whenever she had to warn us about life, my mother told stories that ran like this one, a story to grow up on. She tested our strength to establish realities.”

Following World War II, American colleges saw a drastic decrease in enrollment of military veterans.

Ginsberg and the Beats rejected the idea of Transcendentalism.