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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 placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?
(a) Bay.
(b) Roses.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Violets.
2. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?
(a) Evening.
(b) Morning.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Midnight.
3. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) No sunlight.
(b) Poor soil.
(c) A lack of water.
(d) Thorns.
4. What does one want, according to the speaker in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret, on a "nipping day, a biting day"?
(a) A wrap.
(b) A lover.
(c) A house.
(d) A fire.
5. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Pride.
(c) Inward strife.
(d) Sorrow.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is vair as used in A Birthday?
2. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?
3. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?
4. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?
5. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what is the speaker of Echo in longing?
2. Who is the "she" of The World, and what indicates this interpretation?
3. What does it mean to say that the life of the speaker in A Better Resurrection is like a broken bowl which cannot hold a drop of cordial?
4. Does The One Certainty indicate a pure negativity or is there some indication of hope in the message?
5. What is the meaning of the word "deprecate" as used in the context of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
6. What is the significance of "night" in the second poem entitled Song?
7. What is to be inferred from the last clause of After Death, "and very sweet it is / To know he still is warm though I am cold"?
8. What sort of descriptions does the poem's speaker give to her mood and what characterizes these descriptions in A Birthday?
9. How does Lizzie save her sister in Goblin Market?
10. What is significant about the doves, lilies, and butterflies listed being in pairs in the second poem entitled Song?
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