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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It drops overripe to the ground.
(b) It is eaten ravenously.
(c) It ripens to excess.
(d) It is plucked in its delicacy.

2. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
(a) Old.
(b) Sick.
(c) Cold.
(d) Gray.

3. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Death.
(c) Ice.
(d) Loneliness.

4. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Bah!
(c) Oh!
(d) Fie!

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the great lord first see cousin Kate in the poem of the same name?

2. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?

3. What is vair as used in A Birthday?

4. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

5. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

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