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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It ripens to excess.
(b) It is plucked in its delicacy.
(c) It is eaten ravenously.
(d) It drops overripe to the ground.

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

3. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Weep quietly.
(b) Sob uncontrollably.
(c) Sing a hymn.
(d) Laugh senselessly.

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

5. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?
(a) Truth.
(b) Stone.
(c) Sand.
(d) Ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?

2. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?

3. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

4. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?

5. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

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