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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) Death.
(b) Ice.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Sorrow.

2. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) Pillows.
(b) The bosom of her lover.
(c) A mossy rock.
(d) A tree's root.

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

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

5. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Alas, my love is gone."
(b) "Poor child, poor child."
(c) "Why will you not wake?"
(d) "Death has done us part."

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

2. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

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

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

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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