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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sister Maude.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Life.
(b) Die.
(c) Live.
(d) Spring.

3. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Spring cleaning.
(b) A light snowfall.
(c) A dust storm.
(d) The falling of pollen.

4. When was the deceased of An End born?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

5. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Alas, my love is gone."
(b) "Death has done us part."
(c) "Why will you not wake?"
(d) "Poor child, poor child."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?

2. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?

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

4. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?

5. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?

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