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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) Pity.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Indifference.

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

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

4. 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 is plucked in its delicacy.
(c) It drops overripe to the ground.
(d) It ripens to excess.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?

2. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

3. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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

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