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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sweet Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?
(a) They laugh and go away.
(b) They sell the sister rotten fruit.
(c) They disappear into thin air.
(d) They beat the sister.

2. What adjective is used to describe the chase in the final stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Exhilarating.
(c) Esoteric.
(d) Useless.

3. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?
(a) In the trees.
(b) In the wind.
(c) In the sun.
(d) In the stream.

4. On what sort of day did "it" come to pass in May?
(a) A bright and breezy day.
(b) A dark and cloudy day.
(c) A wet and chill day.
(d) A bright and balmy day.

5. What does the speaker command to sing in the first stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) Spring.
(b) The robin.
(c) The nightingale.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the deceased of An End born?

2. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?

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

4. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?

5. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?

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