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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Snowdrops.
(b) Primrose.
(c) White violets.
(d) Crocuses.

2. What is the second enemy in The Three Enemies?
(a) The night.
(b) The world.
(c) The flesh.
(d) The Son.

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

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

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

6. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) "This thing shalln't be 'gain."
(b) "This thing shall be forevermore."
(c) "This thing shall be again."
(d) "This thing shall be no more."

7. If the speaker of the poem could see another Spring, what would she not plant, as described in the first stanza of Another Spring?
(a) Crops to harvest.
(b) Summer flowers.
(c) Another tree.
(d) The seeds of love.

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

9. At what time is "she" presented as "exceeding fair" in The World?
(a) Night.
(b) Evening.
(c) Day.
(d) Morning.

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

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

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

13. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?
(a) A sincerity of feeling.
(b) A cold heart.
(c) An hour-old ghost.
(d) An unacceptable pridefulness.

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

15. On what sort of day did "it" come to pass in May?
(a) A wet and chill day.
(b) A bright and breezy day.
(c) A bright and balmy day.
(d) A dark and cloudy day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What riches does the second speaker in The Three Enemies desire?

2. According to the preacher in The One Certainty, all things are what?

3. What is better than beauty and youth in Sweet Death?

4. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?

5. When did "it" come to pass in May?

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