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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the grave flowers shed their leaves in Sweet Death?
(a) In showers.
(b) All at once.
(c) They have no leaves.
(d) One by one.

2. To what is Maude Clare compared in the first stanza of Maude Clare?
(a) A badger.
(b) A dove.
(c) A queen.
(d) A village maid.

3. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?
(a) Maggie and Nell.
(b) Susan and Sarah.
(c) Faith and Hope.
(d) Meg and Moll.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective is used to describe the chase in the final stanza of A Pause of Thought?

2. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?

3. If the speaker of the poem could see another Spring, what would she not plant, as described in the first stanza of Another Spring?

4. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?

5. What color are the sheets upon which the speaker lays in the third-to-last stanza of The Convent Threshold?

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