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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?
(a) Rise in her.
(b) Quicken her.
(c) Save her.
(d) Drink of her.

2. What does the speaker of No Thank You, John say the wanness of John's face shows?
(a) An unacceptable pridefulness.
(b) A sincerity of feeling.
(c) A cold heart.
(d) An hour-old ghost.

3. What happens to the sweetest blossoms in Sweet Death?
(a) They continue to grow.
(b) They blow.
(c) They die.
(d) They bloom.

4. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?
(a) What.
(b) Tears.
(c) If.
(d) Never.

5. Instead of that for which she would have to wait, the speaker says in the first stanza of Another Spring that she would at once have her chill-veined what?
(a) Snowdrops.
(b) White violets.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Primrose.

6. Between what are the poppies to be born in May?
(a) Meadows at morn.
(b) Betwixt horn and horn.
(c) The seasons' sojourn.
(d) Blades of corn.

7. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?
(a) Patience and love.
(b) Death and sin.
(c) Love and peace.
(d) Mother and father.

8. Whose blood stands between the speaker and her lover in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Father's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Mother's.
(d) Uncle's.

9. Which of the following does the speaker say in the third stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) "This thing shalln't be 'gain."
(b) "This thing shall be again."
(c) "This thing shall be forevermore."
(d) "This thing shall be no more."

10. Where does the poem's first (or only) speaker have power in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) On earth.
(b) In the hearts of all.
(c) Only in heaven above.
(d) In earth and heaven above.

11. What sort of poem is The World?
(a) A villanelle.
(b) A sonnet.
(c) A limerick.
(d) An epic.

12. When did the speaker of No Thank You, John love John?
(a) Last month.
(b) Last year.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) Never.

13. What is the second enemy in The Three Enemies?
(a) The world.
(b) The Son.
(c) The flesh.
(d) The night.

14. The last line in Sweet Death asks "why / Prefer to glean with" which of the following biblical women?
(a) Eve.
(b) Sara.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Naomi.

15. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The mind that knows.
(b) The heart that aches.
(c) The soul that breathes.
(d) The will to love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is new under the sun in The One Certainty?

2. With what does the speaker watch and wait in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought?

3. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?

4. The body beloved of the speaker now lies, as said in the second stanza of Sister Maude, cold as what?

5. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?

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