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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 149 begins, "She went as quiet as the ___".
(a) Dew.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Night.
(d) Morning.

2. In Poem 507, Emily refers to the bird as _____ which revealed a thousand toes and then ran away on them.
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Bliss.

3. Emily makes an interesting comment about quiet people in Poem 543. She states that she ____ quiet people, those of few words.
(a) Worships.
(b) Fears.
(c) Is jealous of.
(d) Loves.

4. In Poem 199, Emily seems to be writing about the transition from being a single woman to being married and becoming a wife. She indicates it is safer to be _____.
(a) A man.
(b) A child.
(c) Single.
(d) A wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 511, what does Emily tell a friend she would do if she knew when the friend was coming?

2. Poem 136 begins, "Have you got a ____ in your little heart, / Where bashful flowers blow?"

3. In Poem 632, Emily states the brain has the ability to think more deeply than the ____.

4. In Poem 318, Emily describes the _____ as ribbons unfolding as squirrels run to tell the news.

5. In Poem 168, Emily notes that the _____ call flowers simply flowers while other people classify these same flowers into groups.

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