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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 723-804.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poem 739 depicts Emily's search for peace. She writes she often felt peace was at hand, almost as some see hallucinations of ______ where there is none.
(a) Gardens and tombs.
(b) Land or water.
(c) Birds and butterflies.
(d) Friends.

2. 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 moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The flowers.

3. In Poem 318, Emily describes the _____ as a purple stile or steps, with yellow-colored children climbing over it.
(a) Sunset.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) Mountains.

4. In the final stanza of Poem 429, Emily compares herself to _____ in the way in which she promises to be obedient to the far away acquaintance.
(a) The night.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sea.
(d) The stars.

5. In Poem 413, Emily writes about displacement and her desire to run away from _________.
(a) The eyes of the village.
(b) God's watchful eye.
(c) The eyes of mankind.
(d) The world.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 540, Emily states she set her power against the world and although she didn't have the power ____ had, she had more that the amount of boldness he did.

2. In the conclusion of Poem 339, Emily seems to be portraying herself as a daisy. What is she waiting for?

3. In Poem 324, Emily believes that this time with God in nature is more beneficial to her because she is experiencing _____ day by day instead of waiting until life is over.

4. In Poem 536, if people must have pain, people would prefer to have what to deaden the unpleasant sensations?

5. In Poem 61, Emily requests God prepare the mouse a _____ in heaven in which to pass eternity.

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