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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 does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Fame.
(c) A son.
(d) A coronet.

2. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Poor child, poor child."
(b) "Why will you not wake?"
(c) "Death has done us part."
(d) "Alas, my love is gone."

3. With what does the great lord fill the poem's speaker's heart in the first stanza of Cousin Kate?
(a) Hate.
(b) Bewilderment.
(c) Care.
(d) Love.

4. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Thick.
(b) Quick.
(c) Old.
(d) Slow.

5. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?
(a) In their freedom.
(b) In the trees.
(c) In the dew.
(d) In their nests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last word of Spring?

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

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

4. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?

5. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?

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