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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what multi part fruit should the dais be carved in A Birthday?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Pomegranates.
(c) Grapefruit.
(d) Apples.

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

3. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?
(a) The vibrant cardinals'.
(b) The cleft swallows'.
(c) The dipping martins'.
(d) The bright-eyed eagles'.

4. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Life.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) The dying.

5. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on her own grave?
(a) Violets.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Bay.
(d) Laurels.

6. Upon what are the eyes of the poem's speaker and unspecified companion fixed in An End?
(a) The sea.
(b) The clock.
(c) The grass.
(d) The leaves.

7. What adjective is used to describe the door that, "opening, letting in, lets out no more" in the second stanza of Echo?
(a) Thick.
(b) Quick.
(c) Old.
(d) Slow.

8. In the second stanza of Echo, the speaker says that the dream's wakening should have been in what location?
(a) England.
(b) Paradise.
(c) The heavens.
(d) Arden.

9. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?
(a) A limerick.
(b) A villanelle.
(c) An ode.
(d) A sonnet.

10. How many women sing of love together in A Triad?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

14. To which of the following does the poem's speaker insist the bird should sing in A Summer Wish?
(a) The sun.
(b) The passing cloud.
(c) The butterfly.
(d) The sweet summer air.

15. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?
(a) His death.
(b) The future.
(c) A book.
(d) A trip to Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hour does the sun scorch up the world in Spring?

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?

3. Where do the poem's speaker and her unspecified companion sit in An End?

4. In what metal ought the fleurs-de-lys be worked in A Birthday?

5. On the last day of what season does the deceased of An End die?

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