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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Better Resurrection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) The dying.
(b) Sweetness.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Life.

2. How many beds will there be at the resting place in Up-Hill?
(a) Only a few.
(b) Enough for everyone.
(c) Just one.
(d) An infinite amount.

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

4. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) Heavy snow.
(b) Too little sun.
(c) A frost.
(d) A lack of rain.

5. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?
(a) The grass.
(b) The clock.
(c) The sea.
(d) The leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?

2. With what does the speaker watch and wait in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought?

3. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

4. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

5. What does sister Maude lurk to do in the first stanza of Sister Maude?

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