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

2. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?
(a) Dance about the speaker.
(b) Taunt and tease the speaker.
(c) Flee away from the speaker.
(d) Flee towards the speaker.

3. What can the bowl in the third stanza of A Better Resurrection literally not hold?
(a) A cluster of grapes.
(b) The love of God.
(c) The wine of life.
(d) A drop of water.

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

5. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Ivy shadows.
(c) Centipedes.
(d) Whispers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?

4. What is vair as used in A Birthday?

5. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?

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