View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Sympathize with her.
(b) Mock her.
(c) Share their apples with her.
(d) Spit upon her.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?
(a) Violets.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Roses.
(d) Laurels.

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

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

5. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A tear.
(b) A stone.
(c) A rose.
(d) A poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?

2. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

3. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

4. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?

5. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "it" of May?

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

3. Who are the wayfarers who have gone before the poem's inquisitive speaker in Up-Hill?

4. What characterizes the tone of the speaker in the last six lines of Remember?

5. What is the meaning of the word "deprecate" as used in the context of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?

6. For what reason does the speaker of The Convent Threshold prefer the joys of the heavenly life over those of the earthly?

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. What is the significance of "night" in the second poem entitled Song?

9. What does the coldness in Winter: My Secret symbolize?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 686 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample