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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 600-722.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poem 351 brings forth the image of a person being able to examine their life manually as one might examine ____________.
(a) A lover.
(b) A flower.
(c) A piece of jewelry.
(d) An inanimate object.

2. Poem 193, addresses the promise _____ has made that after life is over the human will understand the reason for their troubles on earth.
(a) Matthew.
(b) Peter.
(c) Christ .
(d) Luke.

3. In Poem 318, Emily describes the _____ as a purple stile or steps, with yellow-colored children climbing over it.
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Sunset.

4. Poem 118 makes a comment on the violent nature of ___________.
(a) Men.
(b) Animals.
(c) Warriors.
(d) The human race.

5. Poem 136 begins, "Have you got a ____ in your little heart, / Where bashful flowers blow?"
(a) Forest.
(b) Plain.
(c) Brook.
(d) Field.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final stanza of Poem 507, Emily writes about the cat's dashed hopes for what?

2. In Emily's first analogy in Poem 632, she states _____ can encompass more that the sky because it can comprehend the secrets of the sky along with other information.

3. In Poem 389, the doctor has left and the _____ has come to take charge of the situation.

4. In Poem 324, instead of the bells and ornamentation of a large church, Emily's music is that of a ____.

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

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