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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. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Bah!
(b) No!
(c) Fie!
(d) Oh!

2. 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 marriage bed.
(c) Half of a golden chain.
(d) A cluster of lilies.

3. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?
(a) Timothy.
(b) Dorian.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Gabriel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?

2. Who accompanies Gertrude and helps her with her large load of apples in An Apple Gathering?

3. In what line does the poem turn from an exposition to a resolution in Remember?

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

5. How many eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What characterizes the poem's speaker's commands to the rose and the bird in the first two stanzas of A Summer Wish?

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

7. What is a possible interpretation of the meaning of the last four lines of Dream Land?

8. 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?

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

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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