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Adrienne Rich was an American poet. She was born on May 16, 1929, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was renowned for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse. Her first poetry collection, A Change of World, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Rich declined the National Medal of Arts to protest the end of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Who selected Adrienne Rich's first poetry collection, A Change of World?

  • Robert Frost

  • W. H. Auden

  • Langston Hughes

  • Sylvia Plath

Where did Adrienne Rich attend college?

  • Radcliffe College

  • Harvard University

  • Oxford University

  • Yale University

What was the name of the school Adrienne Rich attended after high school?

  • Harvard University

  • Oxford University

  • Radcliffe College

  • Roland Park Country School

What did Adrienne Rich decline to protest the end of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts?

  • National Book Award

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • National Medal of Arts

  • Nobel Prize

Who was Adrienne Rich's husband?

  • Robert Lowell

  • John Ashbery

  • Alfred Haskell Conrad

  • Allen Ginsberg

What was the name of Adrienne Rich's second poetry collection?

  • A Change of World

  • Diving into the Wreck

  • The Dream of a Common Language

  • The Diamond Cutters

What was Adrienne Rich's father's profession?

  • Poet

  • Pathologist

  • Lawyer

  • Musician

How many children did Adrienne Rich have?

  • One

  • Two

  • Three

  • Four

What did Adrienne Rich call the female continuum of solidarity and creativity?

  • The feminist identity

  • The lesbian continuum

  • The female bond

  • The female collective

What did Adrienne Rich criticize in her feminist writings?

  • The oppression of men

  • The oppression of women and lesbians

  • The rigid forms of feminist identities

  • The discrimination against LGBTQ+ community

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