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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 does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Gives them to her lover.
(b) Scatters them on the ground.
(c) Wears them in her hair.
(d) Sews them into a dress.

2. What sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Hedges.
(b) Roots.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Grass.

3. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) No!
(b) Bah!
(c) Fie!
(d) Oh!

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

5. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the third stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Drink of her.
(b) Rise in her.
(c) Save her.
(d) Quicken her.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?

2. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?

3. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?

4. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

5. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

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