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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?
(a) Copper.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

2. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
(a) By the grave.
(b) By the shore.
(c) Under a tree.
(d) In their house.

3. What is vair as used in A Birthday?
(a) A kind of fur.
(b) A kind of perfume.
(c) A kind of tapestry.
(d) A kind of silk.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

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

4. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?

5. Like what flower does one of the women singing of love bloom like in A Triad?

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