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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is better than beauty and youth in Sweet Death?
(a) Saints and Angels.
(b) Truth.
(c) A full harvest.
(d) Love.

3. How will the speaker feel at the end of her journey in Up-Hill?
(a) Not herself.
(b) Tired.
(c) Rejuvenated.
(d) Strong.

4. What adjective is used to describe the chase in the final stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) Esoteric.
(b) Useless.
(c) Exhilarating.
(d) Fruitful.

5. Of what is the monster in The World devoid?
(a) Truth and love.
(b) Beauty and sincerity.
(c) Love and prayer.
(d) A heart.

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

7. Where does the poem's first (or only) speaker have power in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) In the hearts of all.
(b) In earth and heaven above.
(c) Only in heaven above.
(d) On earth.

8. Of which of the following is man NOT compared to in his being "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?
(a) Dew.
(b) Grass.
(c) Wind.
(d) Hope.

9. What word describes the feet of the "she" in The World?
(a) Sleek.
(b) Club.
(c) Stunted.
(d) Cloven.

10. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?
(a) Most of the way.
(b) Halfway.
(c) Not at all.
(d) All the way.

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

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

13. With what did "it" pass away in May?
(a) All great things.
(b) All sweet things.
(c) All small things.
(d) All swift things.

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

15. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?
(a) Shame.
(b) Fear.
(c) Child.
(d) Sloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what are the poppies to be born in May?

2. What does the speaker command to sing in the first stanza of The First Spring Day?

3. 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?

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

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

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