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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A sea full of fish.
(b) A place that induces a trance.
(c) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.
(d) A sea filled with whirlpools.

2. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?
(a) The depth of his eyes.
(b) The tone of his voice.
(c) The arm.
(d) The hand.

3. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) Life.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) The dying.
(d) Sweetness.

4. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?
(a) Ice.
(b) Sand.
(c) Truth.
(d) Stone.

5. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?

2. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?

3. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?

4. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?

5. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?

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