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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Repentance.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Child-rearing.

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Laugh senselessly.
(b) Sing a hymn.
(c) Weep quietly.
(d) Sob uncontrollably.

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

4. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Comparisons.
(c) Blinds.
(d) Curtains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

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

3. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

4. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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