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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John offer to John in lieu of love?
(a) Money.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Enmity.
(d) Respect.

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

6. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifty.
(d) A thousand.

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

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

9. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?
(a) Tears.
(b) Never.
(c) If.
(d) What.

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

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

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

13. How does the "she" of the poem stand by day in The World?
(a) In the truth.
(b) A lie.
(c) Drunkenly.
(d) Languidly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?

3. "Until the ancient race of Time be run," what shall morning be in The One Certainty?

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

5. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?

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