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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poems 1082-1353.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Poem 95 begins with the line, "My _____ are for Captives--."
(a) Shackles.
(b) Sorrows.
(c) Trumpets.
(d) Nosegays.

2. In Poem 823, Emily states that God is not interested in what things people have done while on earth, but the things they might have done had they been more ____.
(a) Powerful.
(b) Godlike.
(c) Honest.
(d) Evil.

3. In the final stanza of Poem 737, Emily portrays the moon as being the owner or possessor of _______ with the remainder of the stars, firmament and universe being only garments and decorations for the moon.
(a) Beauty.
(b) The Universe.
(c) The earth.
(d) God's love.

4. The wind is the topic of Poem 1137. In the first stanza Emily describes the duties of the wind as including directing ships at sea and marking the beginning of ____.
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) Winter.
(d) March.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 536, if none of this is possible, people will generally desire ____ and the ability to be set free from their suffering.

2. 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.

3. Poem 245 is a poem of loss. In it Emily speaks of a ____ that she has.

4. In Poem 809, Emily writes about the nature of love. She states that those who are loved are unable to do what?

5. In Poem 377, Emily makes the point that it is worse to lose one's faith than to lose _________________?

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