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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Grass.
(c) Roots.
(d) Hedges.

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

3. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?
(a) Two.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Eight.

4. In Dream Land, what bird does the poem's subject hear singing?
(a) A crow.
(b) A nightingale.
(c) A canary.
(d) A finch.

5. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?
(a) A lover.
(b) A virgin.
(c) A dove.
(d) A wife.

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. What is the last word of Spring?

3. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?

4. What is vair as used in A Birthday?

5. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?

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