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

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 ripens to excess.
(c) It is eaten ravenously.
(d) It is plucked in its delicacy.

3. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Maidens.
(b) Cherubim.
(c) Seraphim.
(d) The Blessed.

4. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Bah!
(c) Oh!
(d) Fie!

5. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Child's.
(b) Father's.
(c) Uncle's.
(d) Mother's.

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

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

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

5. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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