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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Two.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Eight.

2. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) Thorns.
(b) Poor soil.
(c) No sunlight.
(d) A lack of water.

3. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A sordid hate.
(b) A paltry love.
(c) A disastrous affair.
(d) A crucifixion.

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

5. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Centipedes.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Ivy shadows.
(d) Whispers.

6. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on her own grave?
(a) Violets.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Bay.
(d) Laurels.

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

8. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) The dying.
(d) Life.

9. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Sing.
(b) Loiter.
(c) Hasten home.
(d) Weep.

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

11. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?
(a) A wrap.
(b) A fire.
(c) A lover.
(d) A house.

12. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Pity.

13. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A sea full of fish.
(b) A sea filled with whirlpools.
(c) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.
(d) A place that induces a trance.

14. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?
(a) Bay.
(b) Roses.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Violets.

15. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Roses.
(c) Violets.
(d) Ivy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?

4. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

5. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

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