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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Summer Wish.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their prime?
(a) Roses.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Bay.
(d) Ivy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the neighbors call the poem's speaker in the 4th stanza of Cousin Kate?

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

3. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?

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

5. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

(see the answer key)

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