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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. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.
2. In Dream Land, what bird does the poem's subject hear singing?
(a) A canary.
(b) A nightingale.
(c) A finch.
(d) A crow.
3. What is vair as used in A Birthday?
(a) A kind of tapestry.
(b) A kind of silk.
(c) A kind of perfume.
(d) A kind of fur.
4. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Grapefruit.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Apples.
5. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on her own grave?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Bay.
(c) Violets.
(d) Ivy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
2. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?
3. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those living in their prime?
4. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
5. What color blossoms does the poem's speaker pick from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the tone of the speaker in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
2. What is the meaning of the word "deprecate" as used in the context of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
3. Does The One Certainty indicate a pure negativity or is there some indication of hope in the message?
4. What might be the reason for John's unwarranted affection towards the poem's speaker in No Thank You, John?
5. Why does the poem's speaker find no apples in her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
6. What is "the one certainty," as proposed in the poem of the same name?
7. Why is Thomas loathe to have married Nell in Maude Clare?
8. 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?
9. What is the tone of the speaker towards death in the final poem entitled Song?
10. Why, of all the women in A Triad, do none achieve life?
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