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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 153, what does the author write is "the only Secret?"
(a) Love.
(b) Dust.
(c) Faith.
(d) Worry.

2. In Poem 226, Emily professes allegiance to a friend by telling this friend that she would harass God until God did what?
(a) Saved the friend's life.
(b) Let the friend into heaven.
(c) Let the friend be with her.
(d) Let the friend marry.

3. Doom is the subject of Poem 475. In this poem, what is described by Emily as doom?
(a) A storm.
(b) A garden.
(c) A house.
(d) A mountain.

4. In the final stanza of Poem 507, Emily writes about the cat's dashed hopes for what?
(a) Catching the mouse.
(b) Catching the squirrel.
(c) Catching the bird.
(d) Eating dinner.

5. In Poem 215, Emily asks if those in Eden wear _____ .
(a) Haloes.
(b) Wings.
(c) New shoes.
(d) Sandals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first of Emily Dickinson's poems is a cry for a single man to choose what for himself?

2. In Poem 536, if they can't be freed from pain, what would humans prefer to do?

3. In Poem 536, what would humans prefer to have first?

4. 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.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the actions of the cat chasing the bird in Poem 507?

2. What does the author write about "Paradise" in Poem 215?

3. Describe the sunset and sunrise of Poem 318.

4. In Poem 199, describe the transitions of womanhood the poet writes about.

5. In Poem 377, how does the poet compare faith and money?

6. Discuss the theme of loss the poet writes about in Poem 23.

7. In Poem 543, how does the poet describe her feelings for quiet people?

8. In Poem 413, Emily writes about displacement and her desire to run away from God's watchful eye. How does she illustrate this?

9. How is the reality of death described in Poem 389?

10. What does the poet "speak to" symbolically in discussing loss in Poem 47?

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