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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

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

5. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

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