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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. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?
(a) The butterfly.
(b) The sweet summer air.
(c) The sun.
(d) The passing cloud.

2. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Blinds.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Comparisons.
(d) Portraits.

3. 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.

4. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Never.
(b) Last month.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) Last year.

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Thick.
(b) Quick.
(c) Old.
(d) Slow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

3. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

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

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

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