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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) Pity.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Love.

2. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Live.
(b) Life.
(c) Spring.
(d) Die.

3. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?
(a) Evening.
(b) Morning.
(c) Night.
(d) Dream.

4. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ten.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Fifty.

5. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?
(a) Sap.
(b) Light.
(c) Roots.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?

2. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

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

4. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?

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

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