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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 nightingale.
(b) Spring.
(c) The robin.
(d) Hope.

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

3. What happens to the sweetest blossoms in Sweet Death?
(a) They die.
(b) They bloom.
(c) They blow.
(d) They continue to grow.

4. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?
(a) Home.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Her heart.

5. The last line in Sweet Death asks "why / Prefer to glean with" which of the following biblical women?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Sara.
(c) Eve.
(d) Naomi.

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

7. Between what are the poppies to be born in May?
(a) The seasons' sojourn.
(b) Blades of corn.
(c) Meadows at morn.
(d) Betwixt horn and horn.

8. In the second stanza of The First Spring Day, the speaker says she wonders if this spring-tide will literally bring another what?
(a) Year.
(b) Spring.
(c) Joy.
(d) Summer.

9. What will the poem's first (or only) speaker bless in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The breath of the soul.
(b) The love of the will.
(c) The germs in the heart.
(d) The seeds in the mind.

10. Into which color do all colors turn in Sweet Death?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Gray.
(d) Green.

11. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?
(a) Patience and love.
(b) Love and peace.
(c) Death and sin.
(d) Mother and father.

12. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

13. The body beloved of the speaker now lies, as said in the second stanza of Sister Maude, cold as what?
(a) Stone.
(b) Death.
(c) Faith.
(d) Ice.

14. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Love.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Repentance.
(d) Child-rearing.

15. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would listen to the daylight _____________.
(a) Animals.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Winds.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?

2. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?

3. In what do all things end in The One Certainty?

4. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?

5. What is the first speaker in The Three Enemies doing to the second speaker in each stanza?

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