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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poem 480 is a poem about love. In response to a lover's question of why she loves him, Emily answers that _____ does not require an answer from the grass when it passes by.
(a) The wind.
(b) The sun.
(c) The flowers.
(d) The moon.

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

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

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

5. Poem 136 begins, "Have you got a ____ in your little heart, / Where bashful flowers blow?"
(a) Plain.
(b) Field.
(c) Forest.
(d) Brook.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 234, the phrases Emily uses to describe the way in which one enters into heaven comes from the book of _____ found in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

2. In Poem 168, Emily moves on to insist that those who read ______ but don't understand the text should not be criticized by those who have studied Biblical texts.

3. Poem 288 is one of Emily's more whimsical poems. In it she quips about the mundane nature of being __________.

4. In Poem 127, if some people knew such dwellings were waiting for them, by what means would they go there as soon as possible?

5. In conclusion of Poem 480, Emily indicates that it is the ______ that compels her to love him.

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