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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 eyes ought the peacocks have in A Birthday?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) One hundred.

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?
(a) Roses.
(b) Violets.
(c) Bay.
(d) Laurels.

3. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Dorian.

4. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A sordid hate.
(b) A disastrous affair.
(c) A crucifixion.
(d) A paltry love.

5. To what is the bride of the poem compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A village maid.
(c) A matron.
(d) A queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

2. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?

3. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the speaker attempt to cast off her expectations in A Pause of Thought?

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

3. With what sort of temptations do the first two enemies beleaguer the second speaker in The Three Enemies?

4. Who is Ruth, as used in the last line of Sweet Death?

5. How does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name confront the newly-wedded couple?

6. What sort of descriptions does the poem's speaker give to her mood and what characterizes these descriptions in A Birthday?

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

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

9. What characterizes the poem's speaker's commands to the rose and the bird in the first two stanzas of A Summer Wish?

10. Why is the speaker unable to cast off her expectations in A Pause of Thought?

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