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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 first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?
(a) The noonday sun.
(b) Sunlight on a stream.
(c) Diamonds held over a candle.
(d) Stars on a moonless night.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those in the flush of youth?
(a) Roses.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Violets.

3. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?
(a) Under the stars.
(b) A house.
(c) An inn.
(d) A mansion.

4. Where does the great lord first see cousin Kate in the poem of the same name?
(a) At her father's gate.
(b) At the local market.
(c) At her grandfather's estate.
(d) At her coming out ball.

5. What is the first enemy in The Three Enemies?
(a) The Father.
(b) The world.
(c) The night.
(d) The flesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long will the journey on the road take in Up-Hill?

2. By what is man "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?

3. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?

4. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

5. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?

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