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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Convent Threshold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) A mossy rock.
(b) A tree's root.
(c) Pillows.
(d) The bosom of her lover.

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

3. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Passes by.
(b) Complains.
(c) Taps.
(d) Calls.

4. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Child-rearing.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Repentance.
(d) Love.

5. 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) Pity.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose blood stands between the speaker and 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. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

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

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