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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 805-1081.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 1078, death is once again the topic. Here Emily speaks of the movement in a house the day after someone has died. Instead of the packing up of physical things, Emily refers to the packing up of ____.
(a) Grief.
(b) Countenance.
(c) Love.
(d) Memory.

2. ______ is said to have sowed the seeds of the crucifixion because, according to the Bible, he did nothing to stop the innocent Jesus from being put to death. Instead, he released to the crowd Barabbas, the known murderer.
(a) Herod.
(b) Goliath.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Peter.

3. In Poem 809, Emily writes about the nature of love. She states that those who are loved are unable to do what?
(a) Die.
(b) Forget.
(c) Be evil.
(d) Remember.

4. In Poem 277, Emily contemplates what might happen if she were to do what?
(a) Marry.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Kill her friend.
(d) Have children.

5. In Poem 245, when Emily does wake, the ____ is gone, and Emily is left with only its memory.
(a) Flower.
(b) Friend.
(c) Dog.
(d) Gem.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 536, Emily describes a hierarchy of ______ of living conditions.

2. In Poem 536, if people must have pain, people would prefer to have what to deaden the unpleasant sensations?

3. In Poem 234, the phrases Emily uses to describe the way in which one enters into heaven comes from the book of _____ found in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

4. In Poem 1075, Emily writes about nature in one of its less regal moments. What is described by Emily in this poem?

5. In Poem 507, Emily refers to the bird as _____ which revealed a thousand toes and then ran away on them.

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