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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?
(a) Quibbles.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Lust.
(d) Pride.

2. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Love.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Child-rearing.

3. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A stone.
(b) A frozen thing.
(c) A church.
(d) A tomb.

4. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?
(a) Arden.
(b) England.
(c) Paradise.
(d) The heavens.

5. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Life.
(b) Live.
(c) Die.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?

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

4. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?

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

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