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

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

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) "Alas, my love is gone."
(c) "Poor child, poor child."
(d) "Death has done us part."

4. 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) Black.
(d) White.

5. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Upward.
(b) Internally.
(c) Nowhere fixed.
(d) Earthward.

Short Answer 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?

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

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

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

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

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