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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 makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Love demurred.
(b) Hope deferred.
(c) Beauty obscured.
(d) Pride injured.

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?
(a) Roses.
(b) Bay.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Ivy.

3. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?
(a) Dorian.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Thomas.

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

5. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?
(a) Stone.
(b) Truth.
(c) Sand.
(d) Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?

2. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

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

4. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

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

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