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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?
(a) The 4th line.
(b) The 9th line.
(c) The 7th line.
(d) The 13th line.

2. Who accompanies Gertrude and helps her with her large load of apples in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Willy.
(b) Lilias.
(c) Thierry.
(d) Lilian.

3. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) The mountains.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Sobriety.

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

5. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?
(a) Evening.
(b) Dream.
(c) Night.
(d) Morning.

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

7. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

8. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?
(a) To woo hearts.
(b) To be fragrant.
(c) To give delight.
(d) To prick the unwary.

9. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?
(a) Copper.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) Bronze.

10. What does the poem's speaker forbid her auditor in the case that he forgets her in Remember?
(a) Grieving.
(b) Loving again.
(c) Resting.
(d) Marrying.

11. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?
(a) The sun.
(b) The butterfly.
(c) The sweet summer air.
(d) The passing cloud.

12. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?
(a) In the sun.
(b) In the trees.
(c) In the stream.
(d) In the wind.

13. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?
(a) A villanelle.
(b) A sonnet.
(c) An ode.
(d) A limerick.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the deceased of An End born?

3. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?

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

5. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?

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