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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Pride injured.
(b) Love demurred.
(c) Beauty obscured.
(d) Hope deferred.

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

3. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A sea filled with whirlpools.
(b) A sea full of fish.
(c) A place that induces a trance.
(d) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.

4. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

5. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would listen to the daylight _____________.
(a) Sounds.
(b) Winds.
(c) Birds.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?

2. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?

3. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?

4. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?

5. What does sister Maude lurk to do in the first stanza of Sister Maude?

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