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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. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?
(a) A queen.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A princess.
(d) Love.

2. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) Tomorrow.
(b) Inebriation.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) The sea.

3. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?
(a) A trip to Italy.
(b) The future.
(c) A book.
(d) His death.

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

5. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) "This thing shall be again."
(b) "This thing shall be no more."
(c) "This thing shalln't be 'gain."
(d) "This thing shall be forevermore."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

2. What is the last word of Spring?

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

4. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?

5. 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?

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