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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 is the last word of Spring?
(a) Die.
(b) Spring.
(c) Life.
(d) Live.

2. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A village maid.
(b) A dove.
(c) A queen.
(d) A badger.

3. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?
(a) The heavens.
(b) Arden.
(c) Paradise.
(d) England.

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

5. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Life.
(c) The dying.
(d) Bitterness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first thing wondered by the poem's speaker in the first stanza of The First Spring Day is what?

2. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

3. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

4. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

5. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?

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