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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Better Resurrection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Hasten home.
(b) Sing.
(c) Weep.
(d) Loiter.

2. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?
(a) Susan and Sarah.
(b) Meg and Moll.
(c) Faith and Hope.
(d) Maggie and Nell.

3. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Hedges.
(c) Grass.
(d) Roots.

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

5. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?
(a) Sap.
(b) Light.
(c) Water.
(d) Roots.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

3. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?

4. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

5. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

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