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

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

3. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Laugh senselessly.
(b) Weep quietly.
(c) Sob uncontrollably.
(d) Sing a hymn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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?

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

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