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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The will to love.
(b) The soul that breathes.
(c) The mind that knows.
(d) The heart that aches.

2. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John offer to John in lieu of love?
(a) Money.
(b) Respect.
(c) Enmity.
(d) Friendship.

3. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?
(a) A thousand.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

4. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?
(a) No one.
(b) Other travelers.
(c) Her enemies.
(d) Her family.

5. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Ivy shadows.
(c) Whispers.
(d) Centipedes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?

2. If the speaker of the poem could see another Spring, what would she not plant, as described in the first stanza of Another Spring?

3. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

4. What adjective is used to describe the chase in the final stanza of A Pause of Thought?

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

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