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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Passes by.
(b) Taps.
(c) Calls.
(d) Complains.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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