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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 fire.
(c) A wrap.
(d) A lover.

2. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?
(a) Grapefruit.
(b) Pomegranates.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Apples.

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

4. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Inward strife.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Pride.

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

6. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

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

8. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?
(a) A rose.
(b) A tulip.
(c) A hyacinth.
(d) A gardenia.

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

10. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?
(a) A song.
(b) A silver penny.
(c) A golden vase.
(d) Her golden locks.

11. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Alas, my love is gone."
(b) "Death has done us part."
(c) "Poor child, poor child."
(d) "Why will you not wake?"

12. In Goblin Market, what location of significance will not grow grass?
(a) The market.
(b) The goblin glen.
(c) Jeanie's grave.
(d) Lizzie's yard.

13. 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) Violets.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Roses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

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

3. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?

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

5. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?

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