View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 413-503.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poem 84 begins, "Her breast is fit for ____, / But I was not a 'Diver.'"
(a) Love.
(b) Pearls.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Jewels.

2. 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) Hand.
(b) Posture.
(c) Resolve.
(d) Mettle.

3. In Poem 292, Emily writes about gathering the _____ to do something one is afraid to do.
(a) Mettle.
(b) Courage.
(c) Strength.
(d) Gusto.

4. In Poem 470, Emily knows she is alive because she is not laid out in a _________________with people looking over her dead body and asking questions about her death.
(a) Funeral home.
(b) Bedroom.
(c) Cemetery.
(d) Parlor.

5. In conclusion of Poem 480, Emily indicates that it is the ______ that compels her to love him.
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Wind.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 80, the author writes, "Our lives are ____ -- / So still -- so Cool --."

2. In Poem 429 _____ is always obedient to the power of the moon and never oversteps its bounds.

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

4. In Poem 429, Emily pledges her obedience to some distant acquaintance. She begins her poem by writing about the way the moon directs the rhythm of what?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 239 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample