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

2. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Whispers.
(c) Ivy shadows.
(d) Centipedes.

4. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Love.
(b) Pity.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Hatred.

5. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to those living in their prime?
(a) Violets.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?

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

3. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?

4. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

5. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the tone of the poem's speaker towards love in An End?

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

4. How does Lizzie save her sister in Goblin Market?

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

6. Why, of all the women in A Triad, do none achieve life?

7. What is the tone of the speaker in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

8. How is it that life comes out of the depths of winter according to Rossetti's Spring?

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

10. Why would the flowers given to the youth change from roses to violets after death in the first poem entitled Song?

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