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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 lover.
(b) A house.
(c) A fire.
(d) A wrap.

2. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
(a) The Blessed.
(b) Cherubim.
(c) Maidens.
(d) Seraphim.

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

4. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Pity.
(b) Love.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Hatred.

5. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Calls.
(b) Passes by.
(c) Complains.
(d) Taps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does March's "peck of dust" correspond in the third stanza of Winter: My Secret?

3. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?

4. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

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

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