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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Cherubim.
(b) The Blessed.
(c) Maidens.
(d) Seraphim.

2. With what did "it" pass away in May?
(a) All swift things.
(b) All great things.
(c) All sweet things.
(d) All small things.

3. What is new under the sun in The One Certainty?
(a) Love.
(b) Peace.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Joy.

4. 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 love.
(c) An empty suit.
(d) An empty name.

5. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Never.
(c) Last month.
(d) Last year.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?

2. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?

3. What adjective is used to describe the chase in the final stanza of A Pause of Thought?

4. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?

5. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

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