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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Pride.
(c) Inward strife.
(d) Sorrow.

3. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The dipping martins'.
(b) The cleft swallows'.
(c) The vibrant cardinals'.
(d) The bright-eyed eagles'.

4. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?
(a) Ten.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Forty.

5. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A queen.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A dove.
(d) A badger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?

2. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

4. The body beloved of the speaker now lies, as said in the second stanza of Sister Maude, cold as what?

5. Into which color do all colors turn in Sweet Death?

(see the answer key)

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