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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) Two.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two thousand.

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

3. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Fie!
(c) Oh!
(d) Bah!

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 fire.
(b) A wrap.
(c) A house.
(d) A lover.

5. When was the deceased of An End born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

6. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Life.
(b) Live.
(c) Spring.
(d) Die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. In Goblin Market, what is the name of Laura's sister?
(a) Jeanie.
(b) Lorrie.
(c) Lauren.
(d) Lizzie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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

3. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?

4. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

5. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?

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