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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 504-599.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 351, after her contemplation is over, she decides even she might learn to like to live ____ just as she likes her earthly home.
(a) In hell.
(b) With a husband.
(c) In heaven.
(d) In the clouds.

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

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) Sunset.
(d) Mountains.

4. What is the subject of Poem 67?
(a) Failure.
(b) Success.
(c) Repentence.
(d) Death.

5. In Poem 118, Emily wishes she could do away with all of humanity and begin her time in _________.
(a) Seclusion.
(b) Hell.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poem 561 is a poem about grief and hurt. To what does Emily compare the grief of each grieving person she meets?

2. In Poem 470, Emily also states she knows she is alive because she does not own a __________.

3. In Poem 339, Emily writes of how she tends her _____ in honor of some absent person.

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

5. ______ is said to have sowed the seeds of the crucifixion because, according to the Bible, he did nothing to stop the innocent Jesus from being put to death. Instead, he released to the crowd Barabbas, the known murderer.

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