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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Pride.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Inward strife.

2. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?
(a) The 4th line.
(b) The 13th line.
(c) The 9th line.
(d) The 7th line.

3. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Never.
(c) Last month.
(d) Last year.

4. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?
(a) A sonnet.
(b) An ode.
(c) A villanelle.
(d) A limerick.

5. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) Poor soil.
(b) Thorns.
(c) A lack of water.
(d) No sunlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?

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

3. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?

4. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?

5. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

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