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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. To what is the bride of the poem compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A queen.
(c) A matron.
(d) A village maid.

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) Heavy snow.
(b) Too little sun.
(c) A frost.
(d) A lack of rain.

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

4. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those in the flush of youth?
(a) Violets.
(b) Laurels.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Roses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?

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

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

4. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the meaning of the phrase, "The bright hues vanish and the odors fly, / The grass hath lasting worth" in Sweet Death?

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

5. What appears to be the speaker's assumption about life after death in the final poem entitled Song?

6. Why does the passing of the "it" leave the speaker old, cold, and gray in May?

7. What is a possible interpretation of the last line of the first stanza in the first poem entitled Song, "Grown old before my time"?

8. With what sort of temptations do the first two enemies beleaguer the second speaker in The Three Enemies?

9. For what is the speaker of Echo in longing?

10. How does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name confront the newly-wedded couple?

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