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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Slow.
(b) Old.
(c) Quick.
(d) Thick.

10. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?
(a) The sweet summer air.
(b) The sun.
(c) The butterfly.
(d) The passing cloud.

11. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) The mountains.

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

13. 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.

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

15. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?
(a) In their freedom.
(b) In the trees.
(c) In their nests.
(d) In the dew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?

3. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?

4. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?

5. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?

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