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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) A light snowfall.
(b) A dust storm.
(c) The falling of pollen.
(d) Spring cleaning.

5. 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) No!
(d) Oh!

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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