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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 536, what would humans prefer to have first?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Death.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

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

3. In Poem 61, Emily writes a humorous epitaph for a mouse that has been killed by a ____.
(a) Man.
(b) Bird.
(c) Owl.
(d) Cat.

4. 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.
(a) Psalms.
(b) Revelations.
(c) Luke.
(d) Matthew.

5. What act does Emily define in Poem437?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Love.
(d) Prayer.

6. In Poem 277, Emily contemplates what might happen if she were to do what?
(a) Have children.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Kill her friend.
(d) Marry.

7. Poem 193, addresses the promise _____ has made that after life is over the human will understand the reason for their troubles on earth.
(a) Christ .
(b) Matthew.
(c) Peter.
(d) Luke.

8. In Poem 103, to what does Emily equate the lack of prayer?
(a) Killing someone.
(b) Killing oneself.
(c) Lying under oath in court.
(d) Lying to God.

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

10. 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) With a husband.
(b) In hell.
(c) In heaven.
(d) In the clouds.

11. 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.
(a) Life.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Death.
(d) God.

12. Emily attempts to convince the man that being single is _________ in Poem 1?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Not natural.
(c) Natural.
(d) Extraordinary.

13. Poem 245 is a poem of loss. In it Emily speaks of a ____ that she has.
(a) Cat.
(b) Flower.
(c) Jewel.
(d) Dog.

14. The first of Emily Dickinson's poems is a cry for a single man to choose what for himself?
(a) A lover.
(b) A garden.
(c) A house.
(d) A flower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Doom is the subject of Poem 475. In this poem, what is described by Emily as doom?

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

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

4. In Poem 540, unlike _____, Emily does not fell her giant; she only succeeds in conquering herself.

5. Poem 351 brings forth the image of a person being able to examine their life manually as one might examine ____________.

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