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

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

3. Instead of that for which she would have to wait, the speaker says in the first stanza of Another Spring that she would at once have her chill-veined what?
(a) White violets.
(b) Crocuses.
(c) Snowdrops.
(d) Primrose.

4. The first thing wondered by the poem's speaker in the first stanza of The First Spring Day is what?
(a) If frozen snowdrops feel the heat of the sun.
(b) If crocus fires are kindling.
(c) If the sap is stirring.
(d) If wintry birds are dreaming.

5. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Violets.
(c) Bay.
(d) Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their prime?

3. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?

4. With what did "it" pass away in May?

5. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

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