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

2. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Grass.
(b) Ferns.
(c) Roots.
(d) Hedges.

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

4. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?
(a) The apple tree lane.
(b) The beach.
(c) Her lover's house.
(d) The vineyard.

5. Where does the great lord first see cousin Kate in the poem of the same name?
(a) At her coming out ball.
(b) At the local market.
(c) At her grandfather's estate.
(d) At her father's gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?

2. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?

3. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

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

5. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why does the poem's speaker find no apples in her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?

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

5. Why is the poem's speaker permanently separated from her once lover in An Apple Gathering?

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

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

8. How does Maude betray her sister, the speaker in Sister Maude?

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

10. For what reason is the poem's speaker in a celebratory mood in A Birthday?

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