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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?
(a) The 7th line.
(b) The 9th line.
(c) The 13th line.
(d) The 4th line.

2. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) An empty suit.
(b) An empty love.
(c) An empty man.
(d) An empty name.

3. Instead of that for which she would have to wait, the speaker says in the first stanza of Another Spring that she would at once have her chill-veined what?
(a) White violets.
(b) Snowdrops.
(c) Primrose.
(d) Crocuses.

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

5. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) Thorns.
(b) No sunlight.
(c) Poor soil.
(d) A lack of water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

3. 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?

4. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?

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

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