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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. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?
(a) The dawning hour.
(b) Noontide.
(c) The setting hour.
(d) Two in the afternoon.

2. At what time does the rose drop down its dew in A Summer Wish?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Morning.
(c) Evening.
(d) Afternoon.

3. What does the speaker command to sing in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) The robin.
(b) Spring.
(c) Hope.
(d) The nightingale.

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

5. What color is the hair of the speaker when she awakes from her dreams in the next-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?

2. What potentially causes the May flowers to wither in Winter: My Secret?

3. With what must Spring dawn again, in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?

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

5. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?

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