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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what is the bride of the poem compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A queen.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A matron.
(d) A hawk.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on her own grave?
(a) Bay.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Violets.
(d) Ivy.

3. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Quicken her.
(b) Save her.
(c) Drink of her.
(d) Rise in her.

4. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?
(a) Evening.
(b) Night.
(c) Dream.
(d) Morning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?

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

3. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?

4. What is vair as used in A Birthday?

5. With what does the speaker watch and wait in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought?

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