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

2. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Oh!
(c) Bah!
(d) Fie!

3. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A poem.
(b) A tear.
(c) A stone.
(d) A rose.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?

2. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

4. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

5. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?

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