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

2. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Her lover's house.
(b) The beach.
(c) The vineyard.
(d) The apple tree lane.

3. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?
(a) In the trees.
(b) In the wind.
(c) In the sun.
(d) In the stream.

4. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Love demurred.
(b) Beauty obscured.
(c) Hope deferred.
(d) Pride injured.

5. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
(a) By the grave.
(b) Under a tree.
(c) In their house.
(d) By the shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

2. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

3. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?

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

5. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

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