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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 color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) White.

2. 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 house.
(b) A fire.
(c) A wrap.
(d) A lover.

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

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

5. 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) Oh!
(c) No!
(d) Fie!

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?

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

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

5. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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