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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 sea filled with whirlpools.
(c) A place that induces a trance.
(d) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.

2. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?
(a) The dawning hour.
(b) The setting hour.
(c) Two in the afternoon.
(d) Noontide.

3. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Curtains.
(b) Comparisons.
(c) Portraits.
(d) Blinds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the poem's speaker's heart NOT like in A Birthday?

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

3. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?

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

5. In Goblin Market, what is the name of Laura's sister?

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