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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through No Thank You John.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?
(a) In the dew.
(b) In the trees.
(c) In their freedom.
(d) In their nests.

2. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Last year.
(c) Last month.
(d) Never.

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

4. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Ice.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Death.

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Thick.
(b) Slow.
(c) Quick.
(d) Old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

2. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

3. Upon what does the poem's speaker's head rest in After Death?

4. In the first line of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her in the silence of the what?

5. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?

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