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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?
(a) The beach.
(b) The apple tree lane.
(c) The vineyard.
(d) Her lover's house.

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

5. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Grass.
(c) Hedges.
(d) Roots.

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

7. 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.

8. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Laugh senselessly.
(b) Sing a hymn.
(c) Sob uncontrollably.
(d) Weep quietly.

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

10. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?
(a) The silent land.
(b) The shadow land.
(c) The land of whispers.
(d) Sweden.

11. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A rose.
(b) A stone.
(c) A poem.
(d) A tear.

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

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

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

15. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?
(a) The dawning hour.
(b) The setting hour.
(c) Two in the afternoon.
(d) Noontide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?

2. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?

3. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?

4. Where does the great lord first see cousin Kate in the poem of the same name?

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

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