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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?
(a) Water.
(b) Light.
(c) Sap.
(d) Roots.

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

3. What do the neighbors call the poem's speaker in the 4th stanza of Cousin Kate?
(a) A dove.
(b) An outcast thing.
(c) Good and pure.
(d) A harlot.

4. 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.

5. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) North.

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

7. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) A dust storm.
(b) Spring cleaning.
(c) The falling of pollen.
(d) A light snowfall.

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

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

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

11. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) A frost.
(b) Too little sun.
(c) Heavy snow.
(d) A lack of rain.

12. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
(a) By the shore.
(b) By the grave.
(c) In their house.
(d) Under a tree.

13. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Portraits.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Blinds.
(d) Comparisons.

14. To what is the bride of the poem compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A village maid.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A queen.
(d) A matron.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?

3. When was the deceased of An End born?

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

5. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?

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