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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Better Resurrection.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The speaker's mother was told of the speaker's what in Sister Maude?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Child.
(c) Fear.
(d) Shame.

3. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) Tomorrow.
(b) The sea.
(c) Inebriation.
(d) Yesterday.

4. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?
(a) The grass.
(b) The leaves.
(c) The clock.
(d) The sea.

5. When was the deceased of An End born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?

2. At what place can the speaker rest at night in Up-Hill?

3. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

4. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?

5. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

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