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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 color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Gray.

2. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?
(a) In their freedom.
(b) In their nests.
(c) In the dew.
(d) In the trees.

3. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?
(a) A wrap.
(b) A house.
(c) A fire.
(d) A lover.

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

5. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Oh!
(b) Bah!
(c) Fie!
(d) No!

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

2. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?

3. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?

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

5. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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