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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 of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?
(a) A cold heart.
(b) A sincerity of feeling.
(c) An hour-old ghost.
(d) An unacceptable pridefulness.

2. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

3. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Gives them to her lover.
(b) Scatters them on the ground.
(c) Wears them in her hair.
(d) Sews them into a dress.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?

2. What is the last word of Spring?

3. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

4. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?

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

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