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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through No Thank You John.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?
(a) In their freedom.
(b) In the dew.
(c) In the trees.
(d) In their nests.

3. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Ice.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Death.

4. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) No sunlight.
(b) A lack of water.
(c) Thorns.
(d) Poor soil.

5. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?
(a) Faith and Hope.
(b) Susan and Sarah.
(c) Meg and Moll.
(d) Maggie and Nell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

2. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?

3. What is the last word of Spring?

4. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

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