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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
(a) Old.
(b) Sick.
(c) Gray.
(d) Cold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Father's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Uncle's.
(d) Mother's.

9. What will the poem's first (or only) speaker bless in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The breath of the soul.
(b) The love of the will.
(c) The germs in the heart.
(d) The seeds in the mind.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what did "it" pass away in May?

2. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker of No Thank You, John tells John to rise above which of the following?

3. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?

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

5. Of which of the following is man NOT compared to in his being "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?

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