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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. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The bright-eyed eagles'.
(b) The vibrant cardinals'.
(c) The dipping martins'.
(d) The cleft swallows'.

2. In A Summer Wish, the poem's speaker wishes she could bloom her hour as a rose in spite of what?
(a) Thorns.
(b) A lack of water.
(c) Poor soil.
(d) No sunlight.

3. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?
(a) Paradise.
(b) The heavens.
(c) England.
(d) Arden.

4. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to rejoice?
(a) In the stream.
(b) In the wind.
(c) In the sun.
(d) In the trees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

2. In the final stanza of A Summer Wish, where are the birds said to take their night rest?

3. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?

4. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?

5. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?

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