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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 is vair as used in A Birthday?
(a) A kind of silk.
(b) A kind of fur.
(c) A kind of perfume.
(d) A kind of tapestry.

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

3. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?
(a) Sweden.
(b) The silent land.
(c) The land of whispers.
(d) The shadow land.

4. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Roots.
(b) Grass.
(c) Hedges.
(d) Ferns.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those living in their prime?

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

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

4. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

5. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Maude betray her sister, the speaker in Sister Maude?

3. What is the tone of the speaker towards death in the final poem entitled Song?

4. What is ironic and somewhat paradoxical about the new-life brought on by Spring in the poem of the same name?

5. Does The One Certainty indicate a pure negativity or is there some indication of hope in the message?

6. What is "the one certainty," as proposed in the poem of the same name?

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

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

9. How does the "she" change from day to night in The World?

10. Why is the poem's speaker permanently separated from her once lover in An Apple Gathering?

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