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

2. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Seraphim.
(b) Cherubim.
(c) The Blessed.
(d) Maidens.

3. What is the third enemy in The Three Enemies?
(a) The world.
(b) The Spirit.
(c) The night.
(d) The Devil.

4. How many beds will there be at the resting place in Up-Hill?
(a) An infinite amount.
(b) Just one.
(c) Only a few.
(d) Enough for everyone.

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

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

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

8. The first thing wondered by the poem's speaker in the first stanza of The First Spring Day is what?
(a) If frozen snowdrops feel the heat of the sun.
(b) If wintry birds are dreaming.
(c) If the sap is stirring.
(d) If crocus fires are kindling.

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

10. What do the youngest blossoms nourish in Sweet Death?
(a) A virgin love.
(b) The rich earth.
(c) The speaker's soul.
(d) An eternal joy.

11. What is the first enemy in The Three Enemies?
(a) The Father.
(b) The flesh.
(c) The night.
(d) The world.

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

13. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?
(a) Her family.
(b) No one.
(c) Other travelers.
(d) Her enemies.

14. "Until the ancient race of Time be run," what shall morning be in The One Certainty?
(a) Kept at bay.
(b) Cold.
(c) Warm.
(d) Gray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the speaker watch and wait in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought?

2. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?

3. What word describes the feet of the "she" in The World?

4. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

5. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?

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