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

2. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?
(a) The dawning hour.
(b) Noontide.
(c) Two in the afternoon.
(d) The setting hour.

3. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?
(a) Quibbles.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Lust.
(d) Pride.

4. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?
(a) Weariness.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Love.
(d) Lust.

5. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The bright-eyed eagles'.
(b) The cleft swallows'.
(c) The vibrant cardinals'.
(d) The dipping martins'.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?

2. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?

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

4. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?

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

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