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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Quick.
(b) Old.
(c) Thick.
(d) Slow.

3. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Save her.
(b) Drink of her.
(c) Quicken her.
(d) Rise in her.

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

5. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Taps.
(b) Calls.
(c) Complains.
(d) Passes by.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?

2. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?

3. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

4. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

5. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?

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