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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.
(b) A place that induces a trance.
(c) A sea full of fish.
(d) A sea filled with whirlpools.

2. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Ivy shadows.
(c) Centipedes.
(d) Whispers.

3. What must ascend in order for shoots to be put forth in Spring?
(a) Water.
(b) Sap.
(c) Roots.
(d) Light.

4. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?
(a) A gardenia.
(b) A tulip.
(c) A hyacinth.
(d) A rose.

5. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) The speaker.
(d) The auditor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last word of Spring?

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

3. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

4. Which of the following is the poem's speaker's heart NOT like in A Birthday?

5. When was the deceased of An End born?

(see the answer key)

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