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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 does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Loiter.
(b) Sing.
(c) Weep.
(d) Hasten home.

2. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?
(a) Other travelers.
(b) Her enemies.
(c) Her family.
(d) No one.

3. 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) Old.
(c) Quick.
(d) Slow.

4. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?
(a) Apples.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Grapefruit.

5. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?
(a) A hyacinth.
(b) A tulip.
(c) A rose.
(d) A gardenia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?

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

4. Which of the following is the poem's speaker's heart NOT like in A Birthday?

5. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?

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