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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Child's.
(b) Father's.
(c) Mother's.
(d) Uncle's.

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?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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

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