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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. When was the deceased of An End born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

2. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Life.
(c) The dying.
(d) Bitterness.

3. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?
(a) A lack of rain.
(b) Heavy snow.
(c) Too little sun.
(d) A frost.

4. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
(a) By the shore.
(b) By the grave.
(c) In their house.
(d) Under a tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?

4. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

5. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the "she" of The World, and what indicates this interpretation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the significance of "night" in the second poem entitled Song?

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

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