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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Love.
(c) Lust.
(d) Weariness.

2. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Drink of her.
(b) Rise in her.
(c) Quicken her.
(d) Save her.

3. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A frozen thing.
(b) A tomb.
(c) A church.
(d) A stone.

4. Who accompanies Gertrude and helps her with her large load of apples in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Willy.
(b) Thierry.
(c) Lilian.
(d) Lilias.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?

2. How many beds will there be at the resting place in Up-Hill?

3. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?

4. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?

5. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?

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