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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Whispers.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Ivy shadows.
(d) Centipedes.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those living in their prime?
(a) Bay.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Violets.

3. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?
(a) They disappear into thin air.
(b) They sell the sister rotten fruit.
(c) They laugh and go away.
(d) They beat the sister.

4. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The cleft swallows'.
(b) The vibrant cardinals'.
(c) The dipping martins'.
(d) The bright-eyed eagles'.

5. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A queen.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A badger.
(d) A dove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?

2. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

3. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?

4. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?

5. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of the speaker towards death in the final poem entitled Song?

2. What revenge is given to the poem's speaker in Cousin Kate?

3. What does it mean to say that the life of the speaker in A Better Resurrection is like a broken bowl which cannot hold a drop of cordial?

4. How is it that life comes out of the depths of winter according to Rossetti's Spring?

5. What is to be inferred from the last clause of After Death, "and very sweet it is / To know he still is warm though I am cold"?

6. Why does the poem's speaker find no apples in her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?

7. With what sort of temptations does the Devil assail the second speaker in The Three Enemies?

8. What might be the reason for John's unwarranted affection towards the poem's speaker in No Thank You, John?

9. Who is the "she" of The World, and what indicates this interpretation?

10. Why would the speaker not plant summer flowers and wait, as described in the first stanza of Another Spring?

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