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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does the man in After Death feel for the poem's speaker in the latter's posthumous condition?
(a) Love.
(b) Pity.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Indifference.

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

3. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?
(a) Pride.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Inward strife.
(d) Hatred.

4. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?
(a) Dorian.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Timothy.
(d) Thomas.

5. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?
(a) Halfway.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Most of the way.
(d) All the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Johns would the speaker of No Thank You, John rather say "no" to than say yes to her auditor?

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

3. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

4. What does the poem's speaker do in the final stanza in An Apple Gathering?

5. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?

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