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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) Poor soil.
(b) A lack of water.
(c) Thorns.
(d) No sunlight.

2. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?
(a) Child.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Fear.
(d) Shame.

3. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?
(a) Patience and love.
(b) Mother and father.
(c) Love and peace.
(d) Death and sin.

4. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Evening.
(d) Morning.

5. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Father's.
(b) Mother's.
(c) Child's.
(d) Uncle's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?

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

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

4. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

5. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?

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