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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 does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?
(a) A wrap.
(b) A house.
(c) A fire.
(d) A lover.

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Sob uncontrollably.
(b) Weep quietly.
(c) Laugh senselessly.
(d) Sing a hymn.

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

4. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Pity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

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

5. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

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