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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) A frozen thing.
(b) A tomb.
(c) A stone.
(d) A church.

2. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Hasten home.
(b) Sing.
(c) Weep.
(d) Loiter.

3. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

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

5. What does the object in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought do?
(a) Dance about the speaker.
(b) Flee towards the speaker.
(c) Flee away from the speaker.
(d) Taunt and tease the speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the speaker compare her heart in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?

2. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?

3. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?

4. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

5. What is the last word of Spring?

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