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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The mind that knows.
(b) The heart that aches.
(c) The soul that breathes.
(d) The will to love.

2. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Seraphim.
(b) Maidens.
(c) The Blessed.
(d) Cherubim.

3. Of which of the following is man NOT compared to in his being "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?
(a) Grass.
(b) Dew.
(c) Wind.
(d) Hope.

4. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?
(a) Child.
(b) Shame.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Fear.

5. What happens to the sweetest blossoms in Sweet Death?
(a) They continue to grow.
(b) They bloom.
(c) They blow.
(d) They die.

6. For what does the poem's first (or only) speaker strive to win in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) His lover.
(b) The race.
(c) His auditor.
(d) The prize.

7. What will the poem's first (or only) speaker bless in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The breath of the soul.
(b) The germs in the heart.
(c) The love of the will.
(d) The seeds in the mind.

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

9. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
(a) Old.
(b) Cold.
(c) Gray.
(d) Sick.

10. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Beauty obscured.
(b) Pride injured.
(c) Hope deferred.
(d) Love demurred.

11. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?
(a) Love.
(b) A princess.
(c) A queen.
(d) A goddess.

12. What is better than beauty and youth in Sweet Death?
(a) Love.
(b) A full harvest.
(c) Truth.
(d) Saints and Angels.

13. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?
(a) Flee away from the speaker.
(b) Dance about the speaker.
(c) Flee towards the speaker.
(d) Taunt and tease the speaker.

14. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?
(a) Most of the way.
(b) Halfway.
(c) Not at all.
(d) All the way.

15. In the second stanza of The First Spring Day, the speaker says she wonders if this spring-tide will literally bring another what?
(a) Joy.
(b) Year.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what disease is "she" afflicted as the moon changes in The World?

2. How do the grave flowers shed their leaves in Sweet Death?

3. How will the speaker feel at the end of her journey in Up-Hill?

4. Into which color do all colors turn in Sweet Death?

5. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?

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