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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 214-311.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 292, Emily encourages one to go ahead and try even if the courage is not there. She suggests holding a steady _____ and also taking deep breaths.
(a) Posture.
(b) Mettle.
(c) Resolve.
(d) Hand.

2. In Poem 103, what does Emily feel in the morning after having such dreams?
(a) Angry.
(b) Victorious.
(c) Sorrowful.
(d) Jealous.

3. In Poem 153, what does the author write is "the only Secret?"
(a) Love.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dust.
(d) Worry.

4. Poem 288 is one of Emily's more whimsical poems. In it she quips about the mundane nature of being __________.
(a) Widowed.
(b) Married.
(c) Famous.
(d) Loved.

5. In Poem 256, Dickinson indicates she believes she is now banished from heaven. She concludes ______ has turned his face away from her.
(a) Her husband.
(b) The Devil.
(c) The Savior.
(d) Her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poem 149 begins, "She went as quiet as the ___".

2. 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 _____.

3. 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?

4. In Poem 245, when Emily does wake, the ____ is gone, and Emily is left with only its memory.

5. The first of Emily Dickinson's poems is a cry for a single man to choose what for himself?

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