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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those in the flush of youth?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Roses.
(d) Violets.

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

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

5. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) Inebriation.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) The sea.

6. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?
(a) Arden.
(b) Paradise.
(c) England.
(d) The heavens.

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

8. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?
(a) Weariness.
(b) Lust.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Love.

9. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Dorian.
(d) Gabriel.

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

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

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

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

14. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?
(a) A fickle heart.
(b) A cluster of lilies.
(c) Half of a golden chain.
(d) A marriage bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?

3. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

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

5. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?

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