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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color blossoms does the poem's speaker pick from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Pink.
(d) Orange.

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

3. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A disastrous affair.
(b) A sordid hate.
(c) A crucifixion.
(d) A paltry love.

4. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Thick.
(b) Old.
(c) Slow.
(d) Quick.

5. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?
(a) The sea.
(b) The grass.
(c) The leaves.
(d) The clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?

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

3. In Goblin Market, what location of significance will not grow grass?

4. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?

5. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the wayfarers who have gone before the poem's inquisitive speaker in Up-Hill?

2. How does Lizzie save her sister in Goblin Market?

3. What is the attitude of the first speaker in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break to his auditor?

4. Does The One Certainty indicate a pure negativity or is there some indication of hope in the message?

5. Why does the passing of the "it" leave the speaker old, cold, and gray in May?

6. For what is the speaker of Echo in longing?

7. What does the coldness in Winter: My Secret symbolize?

8. What is a possible interpretation of the last line of the first stanza in the first poem entitled Song, "Grown old before my time"?

9. Why is the speaker unable to cast off her expectations in A Pause of Thought?

10. What is implied to be the meaning of the poem by the final stanza of An End?

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