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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?
(a) The hand.
(b) The depth of his eyes.
(c) The tone of his voice.
(d) The arm.

3. 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 sea full of fish.
(d) A place that induces a trance.

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

5. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) The dying.
(b) Sweetness.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the women singing of love yet lives in the poem, A Triad?

2. What do the neighbors call the poem's speaker in the 4th stanza of Cousin Kate?

3. In Dream Land, what bird does the poem's subject hear singing?

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

5. Into what land does the poem's speaker say she will go in Remember?

(see the answer key)

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