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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Wears them in her hair.
(b) Gives them to her lover.
(c) Scatters them on the ground.
(d) Sews them into a dress.

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

3. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) An empty man.
(b) An empty name.
(c) An empty suit.
(d) An empty love.

4. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A stone.
(b) An icicle.
(c) A tree.
(d) A tomb.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Dream Land, what bird does the poem's subject hear singing?

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

4. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on her own grave?

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

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