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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 do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Mock her.
(b) Sympathize with her.
(c) Share their apples with her.
(d) Spit upon her.

2. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?
(a) A marriage bed.
(b) A cluster of lilies.
(c) Half of a golden chain.
(d) A fickle heart.

3. Which of the following is the poem's speaker's heart NOT like in A Birthday?
(a) An apple tree.
(b) A rainbow shell.
(c) A singing bird.
(d) A glowing smile.

4. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) Sobriety.
(d) The mountains.

5. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?

2. In Goblin Market, what is the name of Laura's sister?

3. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?

4. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their prime?

5. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might the man in After Death pity the poem's speaker now that she is dead?

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

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

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

6. Why would the speaker not plant summer flowers and wait, as described in the first stanza of Another Spring?

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

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

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

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

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