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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) Blinds.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Portraits.
(d) Comparisons.

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) Blue.
(d) White.

3. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) The bosom of her lover.
(b) A mossy rock.
(c) A tree's root.
(d) Pillows.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover 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 does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

4. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

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

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