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

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

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

4. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

5. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Earthward.
(b) Internally.
(c) Nowhere fixed.
(d) Upward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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

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

5. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

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