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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would find music in which of the following?
(a) Market.
(b) Hail.
(c) Waves.
(d) Evening.

2. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?
(a) What.
(b) If.
(c) Never.
(d) Tears.

3. 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) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) White.

4. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John offer to John in lieu of love?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Respect.
(c) Money.
(d) Enmity.

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

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) Pride.
(c) Lust.
(d) Sloth.

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

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

9. In what do all things end in The One Certainty?
(a) The eternal pain of hell.
(b) The long dust of death.
(c) The sorrowful wails of the unloved.
(d) The blissful joy of paradise.

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

11. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?
(a) An inn.
(b) A mansion.
(c) A house.
(d) Under the stars.

12. When did "it" come to pass in May?
(a) Late April.
(b) Early June.
(c) Early May.
(d) Late May.

13. With what disease is "she" afflicted as the moon changes in The World?
(a) Shingles.
(b) Measles.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Leprosy.

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

15. With what must Spring dawn again, in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) Warmth and bloom.
(b) A bright new sun.
(c) Warming drops of dew.
(d) Cloudy skies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?

3. The first thing wondered by the poem's speaker in the first stanza of The First Spring Day is what?

4. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?

5. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?

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