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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. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?
(a) A song.
(b) A silver penny.
(c) Her golden locks.
(d) A golden vase.

2. What do the neighbors call the poem's speaker in the 4th stanza of Cousin Kate?
(a) A dove.
(b) An outcast thing.
(c) A harlot.
(d) Good and pure.

3. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?
(a) A rose.
(b) A tulip.
(c) A hyacinth.
(d) A gardenia.

4. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Inward strife.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Pride.

5. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?
(a) A fickle heart.
(b) A cluster of lilies.
(c) Half of a golden chain.
(d) A marriage bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?

2. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?

3. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

4. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

5. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ruth, as used in the last line of Sweet Death?

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

3. Why, of all the women in A Triad, do none achieve life?

4. What is significant about the doves, lilies, and butterflies listed being in pairs in the second poem entitled Song?

5. What does the speaker in Remember exhort the auditor to do in the first eight lines?

6. What is the attitude of the speaker in No Thank You, John towards John?

7. Why does the great lord cast aside the poem's speaker in Cousin Kate?

8. In Another Spring, what is the literal implication of the repetition of the phrase, "If I might see another Spring"?

9. For what does the inn in Up-Hill stand as a metaphor, and what indicates this?

10. What is implied to be the meaning of the poem by the final stanza of An End?

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