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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 second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Quicken her.
(b) Drink of her.
(c) Rise in her.
(d) Save her.

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

3. What riches does the second speaker in The Three Enemies desire?
(a) The love of men.
(b) Daily bread.
(c) All the world.
(d) Piles of gold.

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

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

6. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A frozen thing.
(b) A stone.
(c) A church.
(d) A tomb.

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

8. How many of the birds have foregone their mates at the passing of "it" in May?
(a) Some.
(b) None.
(c) Most.
(d) All.

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

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

11. In the second stanza of The Three Enemies, of the third enemy, what is it said that the second speaker shall win?
(a) Love.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Glory.
(d) Riches.

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

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

14. What does sister Maude lurk to do in the first stanza of Sister Maude?
(a) Totter and leer.
(b) Hide and lie.
(c) Snicker and sneer.
(d) Spy and peer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?

2. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?

3. What happens to the sweetest blossoms in Sweet Death?

4. With what disease is "she" afflicted as the moon changes in The World?

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

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