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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 does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Weep.
(b) Sing.
(c) Hasten home.
(d) Loiter.

2. 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) Laurels.
(d) Bay.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?

2. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?

3. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?

4. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. With what sort of temptations does the Devil assail the second speaker in The Three Enemies?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Maude betray her sister in Sister Maude?

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