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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Comparisons.
(c) Blinds.
(d) Curtains.

2. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Oh!
(b) Fie!
(c) Bah!
(d) No!

3. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?
(a) Fame.
(b) Wealth.
(c) A son.
(d) A coronet.

4. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?
(a) Bay.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Roses.
(d) Violets.

5. In Goblin Market, what is the name of Laura's sister?
(a) Lorrie.
(b) Lauren.
(c) Lizzie.
(d) Jeanie.

6. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

8. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Ice.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Death.

9. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) The sea.
(b) Yesterday.
(c) Inebriation.
(d) Tomorrow.

10. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Copper.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

11. To what is the bride of the poem compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A matron.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A queen.

12. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Taps.
(b) Complains.
(c) Calls.
(d) Passes by.

13. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?
(a) Ice.
(b) Truth.
(c) Stone.
(d) Sand.

14. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) One hundred.

15. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It is eaten ravenously.
(b) It drops overripe to the ground.
(c) It ripens to excess.
(d) It is plucked in its delicacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last word of Spring?

2. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

3. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?

4. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?

5. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

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