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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 do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Share their apples with her.
(b) Mock her.
(c) Sympathize with her.
(d) Spit upon her.

2. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?
(a) The setting hour.
(b) Two in the afternoon.
(c) The dawning hour.
(d) Noontide.

3. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?
(a) A tulip.
(b) A gardenia.
(c) A hyacinth.
(d) A rose.

4. What color blossoms does the poem's speaker pick from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Pink.
(d) Orange.

5. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

3. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would find music in which of the following?

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

5. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?

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