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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 536, if they can't have ______, humans would prefer to have no pain.
(a) Love.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Faith.
(d) Death.

2. In Poem 389, the doctor has left and the _____ has come to take charge of the situation.
(a) Daughter.
(b) Minister.
(c) Son.
(d) Father.

3. In the second stanza of Poem 234, Emily talks about the cost associated with going to heaven. Here she uses _____ terminology in her description.
(a) Medical.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Banking.
(d) Christian.

4. Emily uses images of the Biblical characters _______ in Poem 540.
(a) Jesus and Satan.
(b) Herod and Jesus.
(c) David and Goliath.
(d) Matthew and Luke.

5. In Poem 608, Emily states she is afraid of the ______ no more than the east is afraid of the morning time.
(a) Resurrection.
(b) Judgment Day.
(c) Atomic bomb.
(d) End of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 168, who is one of the heroes of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible who was denied entrance into Canaan, the Promised Land?

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

3. In Poem 234, Emily shows her uncertainty of what actually happens to the bad people by tacking the phrase ______ onto the end of her poem.

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

5. In Poem 389, the poet ends with saying this is how it always happens in ________________.

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