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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sweet Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A stone.
(b) A rose.
(c) A tear.
(d) A poem.

2. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Weep.
(b) Loiter.
(c) Sing.
(d) Hasten home.

3. What does the speaker command to sing in the second stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) The nightingale.
(b) Hope.
(c) Spring.
(d) The robin.

4. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

5. What is the first speaker in The Three Enemies doing to the second speaker in each stanza?
(a) Wooing.
(b) Joking.
(c) Tempting.
(d) Cajoling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?

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

3. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

4. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?

5. What do the youngest blossoms nourish in Sweet Death?

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