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

2. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?
(a) A lover.
(b) A fire.
(c) A house.
(d) A wrap.

3. 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) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

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

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