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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A tree.
(b) A stone.
(c) An icicle.
(d) A tomb.

2. By what is man "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?
(a) Hope and fear.
(b) Death and judgment.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Heaven and hell.

3. With what must Spring dawn again, in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) A bright new sun.
(b) Cloudy skies.
(c) Warming drops of dew.
(d) Warmth and bloom.

4. What sort of poem is The World?
(a) A villanelle.
(b) An epic.
(c) A limerick.
(d) A sonnet.

5. Of what is the monster in The World devoid?
(a) Truth and love.
(b) Love and prayer.
(c) A heart.
(d) Beauty and sincerity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?

2. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

3. What does the speaker command to sing in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?

4. With what disease is "she" afflicted as the moon changes in The World?

5. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?

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