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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 phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Why will you not wake?"
(b) "Alas, my love is gone."
(c) "Death has done us part."
(d) "Poor child, poor child."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

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

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

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