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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Child-rearing.
(b) Love.
(c) Repentance.
(d) Marriage.

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

3. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

4. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Comparisons.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Blinds.
(d) Portraits.

5. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Complains.
(b) Taps.
(c) Passes by.
(d) Calls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

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

3. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

4. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

5. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

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