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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker command to sing in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) The robin.
(b) Spring.
(c) The nightingale.
(d) Hope.

2. What does the speaker command to sing in the first stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) Spring.
(b) The robin.
(c) The nightingale.
(d) Hope.

3. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?
(a) Pride.
(b) Lust.
(c) Quibbles.
(d) Sloth.

4. What can the bowl in the third stanza of A Better Resurrection literally not hold?
(a) The wine of life.
(b) The love of God.
(c) A cluster of grapes.
(d) A drop of water.

5. By what is man "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Death and judgment.
(c) Hope and fear.
(d) Life and death.

6. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Gray.

7. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Save her.
(b) Rise in her.
(c) Quicken her.
(d) Drink of her.

8. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?
(a) Susan and Sarah.
(b) Faith and Hope.
(c) Maggie and Nell.
(d) Meg and Moll.

9. How long will the journey on the road take in Up-Hill?
(a) A year.
(b) All day.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) Half a day.

10. What does the poem's first (or only) speaker guide towards himself in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The intellectual thirst of the mind.
(b) The unseen longings of the soul.
(c) The lonely thrust of the world.
(d) The deep yearnings of the heart.

11. What sort of poem is The World?
(a) A villanelle.
(b) A limerick.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) An epic.

12. Instead of that for which she would have to wait, the speaker says in the first stanza of Another Spring that she would at once have her chill-veined what?
(a) White violets.
(b) Snowdrops.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Primrose.

13. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Internally.
(b) Nowhere fixed.
(c) Earthward.
(d) Upward.

14. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Never.
(c) Last year.
(d) Last month.

15. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Hope deferred.
(b) Love demurred.
(c) Pride injured.
(d) Beauty obscured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?

2. At what time is "she" presented as "exceeding fair" in The World?

3. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?

4. Of what is the monster in The World devoid?

5. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would listen to the daylight _____________.

(see the answer keys)

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