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

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

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

4. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Centipedes.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Whispers.
(d) Ivy shadows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?

2. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

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

4. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

5. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?

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