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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Nowhere fixed.
(b) Internally.
(c) Upward.
(d) Earthward.

2. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It ripens to excess.
(b) It drops overripe to the ground.
(c) It is plucked in its delicacy.
(d) It is eaten ravenously.

3. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Seraphim.
(b) The Blessed.
(c) Maidens.
(d) Cherubim.

4. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

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

3. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

4. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?

5. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

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