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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 does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?
(a) A son.
(b) A coronet.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Fame.

2. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?
(a) Tomorrow.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) The mountains.

3. Where does the great lord first see cousin Kate in the poem of the same name?
(a) At her grandfather's estate.
(b) At her coming out ball.
(c) At the local market.
(d) At her father's gate.

4. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?
(a) The auditor.
(b) Love.
(c) The speaker.
(d) Death.

5. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A paltry love.
(b) A disastrous affair.
(c) A sordid hate.
(d) A crucifixion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?

2. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

3. What is the last word of Spring?

4. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?

5. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fills the poem's speaker with sadness in At Home?

2. What is the tone of the speaker in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

3. Why might the man in After Death pity the poem's speaker now that she is dead?

4. Why is Thomas loathe to have married Nell in Maude Clare?

5. For what reason is the poem's speaker in a celebratory mood in A Birthday?

6. 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"?

7. To interpret beyond the literal meaning of the poem, why does the speaker not wish to reveal her secret in Winter: My Secret?

8. For what reason does the poem's speaker feel the need to seek repentance in The Convent Threshold?

9. For what reason does the speaker ostensibly envy the rose and bird in A Summer Wish?

10. What is meant by the line "Or in this world, or in the world to come" in the last stanza of The First Spring Day?

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