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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Convent Threshold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Love.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Pity.

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) A lack of rain.
(b) Heavy snow.
(c) A frost.
(d) Too little sun.

3. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It is eaten ravenously.
(b) It drops overripe to the ground.
(c) It is plucked in its delicacy.
(d) It ripens to excess.

4. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Whispers.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Ivy shadows.
(d) Centipedes.

5. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Why will you not wake?"
(b) "Alas, my love is gone."
(c) "Poor child, poor child."
(d) "Death has done us part."

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

2. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

3. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?

4. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

5. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

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