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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) Thorns.
(b) A lack of water.
(c) Poor soil.
(d) No sunlight.

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

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

4. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?
(a) A book.
(b) A trip to Italy.
(c) His death.
(d) The future.

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

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

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

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

9. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?
(a) Sunlight on a stream.
(b) Stars on a moonless night.
(c) Diamonds held over a candle.
(d) The noonday sun.

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

11. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?
(a) To prick the unwary.
(b) To give delight.
(c) To be fragrant.
(d) To woo hearts.

12. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Death.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Ice.

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

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

15. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A place that induces a trance.
(b) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.
(c) A sea full of fish.
(d) A sea filled with whirlpools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those in the flush of youth?

2. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?

3. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

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

5. 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?

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