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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) The speaker.
(d) The auditor.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Violets.
(c) Roses.
(d) Ivy.

3. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The dipping martins'.
(b) The cleft swallows'.
(c) The vibrant cardinals'.
(d) The bright-eyed eagles'.

4. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?
(a) Sunlight on a stream.
(b) The noonday sun.
(c) Diamonds held over a candle.
(d) Stars on a moonless night.

5. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?
(a) A lover.
(b) A wife.
(c) A dove.
(d) A virgin.

6. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?
(a) A trip to Italy.
(b) The future.
(c) His death.
(d) A book.

7. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Pity.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Indifference.

8. When was the deceased of An End born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

9. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?
(a) The apple tree lane.
(b) The beach.
(c) The vineyard.
(d) Her lover's house.

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

11. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?
(a) The passing cloud.
(b) The sweet summer air.
(c) The butterfly.
(d) The sun.

12. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Dusk.

13. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Sews them into a dress.
(b) Gives them to her lover.
(c) Scatters them on the ground.
(d) Wears them in her hair.

14. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A badger.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A queen.
(d) A dove.

15. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those living in their prime?
(a) Ivy.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Bay.
(d) Violets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?

2. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

3. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

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

5. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?

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