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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Internally.
(b) Upward.
(c) Earthward.
(d) Nowhere fixed.

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

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

7. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The will to love.
(b) The mind that knows.
(c) The heart that aches.
(d) The soul that breathes.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. What is new under the sun in The One Certainty?
(a) Peace.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Joy.
(d) Love.

14. In the second stanza of The First Spring Day, the speaker says she wonders if this spring-tide will literally bring another what?
(a) Year.
(b) Joy.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?

2. In what do all things end in The One Certainty?

3. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?

4. What sort of poem is The World?

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

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