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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Summer Wish.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) "Death has done us part."
(b) "Poor child, poor child."
(c) "Alas, my love is gone."
(d) "Why will you not wake?"

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

3. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?
(a) A sonnet.
(b) A limerick.
(c) A villanelle.
(d) An ode.

4. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?

2. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

3. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?

4. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their youth?

5. When was the deceased of An End born?

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