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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) A dust storm.
(b) A light snowfall.
(c) The falling of pollen.
(d) Spring cleaning.

2. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A poem.
(b) A tear.
(c) A stone.
(d) A rose.

3. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Two.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Eight.

4. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Pity.
(d) Love.

5. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) The bosom of her lover.
(b) A tree's root.
(c) A mossy rock.
(d) Pillows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will the speaker feel at the end of her journey in Up-Hill?

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

3. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the third stanza of A Better Resurrection?

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

5. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?

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