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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. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?
(a) The silent land.
(b) The land of whispers.
(c) The shadow land.
(d) Sweden.

2. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?
(a) A silver penny.
(b) A song.
(c) A golden vase.
(d) Her golden locks.

3. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Child-rearing.
(d) Love.

4. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Ice.
(c) Death.
(d) Loneliness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?

2. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?

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?

4. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?

5. What is the last word of Spring?

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