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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?
(a) A disastrous affair.
(b) A paltry love.
(c) A crucifixion.
(d) A sordid hate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker in the first poem entitled Song say ought to be placed on the grave of those who died in their prime?

3. At what hour do the lives of those yet living stand full in At Home?

4. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does the speaker of The Convent Threshold prefer the joys of the heavenly life over those of the earthly?

2. Who is Ruth, as used in the last line of Sweet Death?

3. What is the tone of the speaker towards death in the final poem entitled Song?

4. What is ironic and somewhat paradoxical about the new-life brought on by Spring in the poem of the same name?

5. In Another Spring, what is the literal implication of the repetition of the phrase, "If I might see another Spring"?

6. Why might the man in After Death pity the poem's speaker now that she is dead?

7. What is significant about the doves, lilies, and butterflies listed being in pairs in the second poem entitled Song?

8. What is a possible interpretation of the last line of the first stanza in the first poem entitled Song, "Grown old before my time"?

9. What is the "it" of May?

10. What is the attitude of the speaker in No Thank You, John towards John?

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