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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?
(a) By the shore.
(b) In their house.
(c) Under a tree.
(d) By the grave.

3. Where did the poem's speaker and her former lover used to walk in An Apple Gathering?
(a) The beach.
(b) The apple tree lane.
(c) Her lover's house.
(d) The vineyard.

4. For what purpose does the speaker of A Summer Wish believe the rose is chiefly meant?
(a) To give delight.
(b) To prick the unwary.
(c) To woo hearts.
(d) To be fragrant.

5. What do the poem's speaker's neighbors do when they see her pass empty-handed in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Share their apples with her.
(b) Mock her.
(c) Sympathize with her.
(d) Spit upon her.

6. What creeps through the lattice near the poem's speaker in After Death?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Centipedes.
(c) Ivy shadows.
(d) Whispers.

7. What does the poem's speaker forbid her auditor in the case that he forgets her in Remember?
(a) Marrying.
(b) Grieving.
(c) Loving again.
(d) Resting.

8. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Spring.
(b) Die.
(c) Life.
(d) Live.

9. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be given to her?
(a) Laurels.
(b) Roses.
(c) Violets.
(d) Ivy.

10. 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?
(a) Bay.
(b) Violets.
(c) Roses.
(d) Laurels.

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

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

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

14. In the final stanza of Echo, the speaker's life is described as being cold in what?
(a) Ice.
(b) Death.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Sorrow.

15. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) It is plucked in its delicacy.
(b) It drops overripe to the ground.
(c) It is eaten ravenously.
(d) It ripens to excess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is uttered by the man who leans over the poem's speaker in After Death?

2. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?

3. In the first stanza of Echo, the speaker demands that her auditor come to her with eyes as bright as what?

4. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?

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

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