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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

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

4. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?
(a) Noon.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dusk.

5. In Dream Land, what bird does the poem's subject hear singing?
(a) A nightingale.
(b) A finch.
(c) A crow.
(d) A canary.

6. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?
(a) A coronet.
(b) A son.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Fame.

7. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?
(a) Death.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The auditor.
(d) Love.

8. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?
(a) Evening.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Morning.

9. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Death.
(c) Ice.
(d) Loneliness.

10. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?
(a) They sell the sister rotten fruit.
(b) They disappear into thin air.
(c) They laugh and go away.
(d) They beat the sister.

11. What might the poem's speaker have been instead of an "unclean thing" in Cousin Kate?
(a) A wife.
(b) A dove.
(c) A virgin.
(d) A lover.

12. What color blossoms does the poem's speaker pick from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Orange.
(b) Green.
(c) Pink.
(d) Red.

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

14. What is vair as used in A Birthday?
(a) A kind of silk.
(b) A kind of tapestry.
(c) A kind of perfume.
(d) A kind of fur.

15. In Goblin Market, what location of significance will not grow grass?
(a) Lizzie's yard.
(b) Jeanie's grave.
(c) The goblin glen.
(d) The market.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?

2. When was the deceased of An End born?

3. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?

4. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

5. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?

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