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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 happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It drops overripe to the ground.
(b) It is plucked in its delicacy.
(c) It ripens to excess.
(d) It is eaten ravenously.

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

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

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

5. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

5. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

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