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

2. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Fie!
(c) Oh!
(d) Bah!

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) Gray.
(d) Black.

4. 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 wrap.
(d) A house.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

5. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

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