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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?
(a) A cold heart.
(b) An unacceptable pridefulness.
(c) An hour-old ghost.
(d) A sincerity of feeling.

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

3. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?
(a) Lust.
(b) Pride.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Quibbles.

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

5. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A disastrous affair.
(b) A crucifixion.
(c) A sordid hate.
(d) A paltry love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

2. The body beloved of the speaker now lies, as said in the second stanza of Sister Maude, cold as what?

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

4. On what sort of day did "it" come to pass in May?

5. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

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