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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Convent Threshold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Centipedes.
(b) Ivy shadows.
(c) Fingers.
(d) Whispers.

2. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Oh!
(b) Bah!
(c) Fie!
(d) No!

3. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Why will you not wake?"
(b) "Alas, my love is gone."
(c) "Poor child, poor child."
(d) "Death has done us part."

4. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

5. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) A mossy rock.
(b) The bosom of her lover.
(c) Pillows.
(d) A tree's root.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

2. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

3. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

4. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?

5. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?

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