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

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) A lack of rain.
(b) Too little sun.
(c) Heavy snow.
(d) A frost.

3. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Mother's.
(b) Father's.
(c) Child's.
(d) Uncle's.

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

5. 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 eaten ravenously.
(d) It is plucked in its delicacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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

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

5. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

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