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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sister Maude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says in the second stanza of Winter: My Secret that she cannot open to everyone who does what?
(a) Calls.
(b) Taps.
(c) Passes by.
(d) Complains.

2. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?
(a) The mountains.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Yesterday.

3. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John offer to John in lieu of love?
(a) Money.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Enmity.
(d) Respect.

4. In what is cousin Kate's love writ in the poem of the same name?
(a) Truth.
(b) Ice.
(c) Sand.
(d) Stone.

5. To what does the speaker lament the giving of the peace of all the days she has to live in the fourth stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) An empty love.
(b) An empty man.
(c) An empty suit.
(d) An empty name.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?

2. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?

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

4. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?

5. When did "it" come to pass in May?

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