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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 is vair as used in A Birthday?
(a) A kind of tapestry.
(b) A kind of perfume.
(c) A kind of fur.
(d) A kind of silk.

2. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?
(a) Light.
(b) Water.
(c) Sap.
(d) Roots.

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

4. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) The sea.
(d) Inebriation.

5. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?
(a) Pride.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Quibbles.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

4. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

5. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

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