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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Home.
(d) Eternity.

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

3. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Pity.

4. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Ice.
(d) Death.

5. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?
(a) Forty.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?

4. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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

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