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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 color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

2. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?
(a) To be fragrant.
(b) To give delight.
(c) To prick the unwary.
(d) To woo hearts.

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

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

5. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?
(a) Halfway.
(b) Most of the way.
(c) Not at all.
(d) All the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

2. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?

3. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

4. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

5. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?

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