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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Convent Threshold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?
(a) Comparisons.
(b) Portraits.
(c) Curtains.
(d) Blinds.

2. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?
(a) The bosom of her lover.
(b) A tree's root.
(c) Pillows.
(d) A mossy rock.

3. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

4. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Upward.
(b) Earthward.
(c) Internally.
(d) Nowhere fixed.

5. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Sob uncontrollably.
(b) Weep quietly.
(c) Sing a hymn.
(d) Laugh senselessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

2. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

3. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?

4. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

5. To what does the poem's speaker implore her lover in The Convent Threshold?

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