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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 color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Gray.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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) Oh!
(c) Bah!
(d) Fie!

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?

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

3. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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

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