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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. 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.

2. What does the man in After Death who leans over the poem's speaker do after moving away from her?
(a) Laugh senselessly.
(b) Sob uncontrollably.
(c) Weep quietly.
(d) Sing a hymn.

3. In Goblin Market, with what does Laura's sister attempt to purchase the goblin fruit?
(a) A golden vase.
(b) Her golden locks.
(c) A silver penny.
(d) A song.

4. What is a halcyon sea as used in A Birthday?
(a) A sea full of fish.
(b) A place which surrounds with peace and happiness.
(c) A place that induces a trance.
(d) A sea filled with whirlpools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wings does God guide in Spring?

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

3. Of what has the poem's auditor planned in Remember?

4. What is nursed in its grave by Death in Spring?

5. In After Death, what in the vicinity of the poem's speaker are half drawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. To interpret beyond the literal meaning of the poem, why does the speaker not wish to reveal her secret in Winter: My Secret?

2. Does The One Certainty indicate a pure negativity or is there some indication of hope in the message?

3. What revenge is given to the poem's speaker in Cousin Kate?

4. What does it mean to say that the life of the speaker in A Better Resurrection is like a broken bowl which cannot hold a drop of cordial?

5. Why does the passing of the "it" leave the speaker old, cold, and gray in May?

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

7. Why is the speaker unable to cast off her expectations in A Pause of Thought?

8. Who are the wayfarers who have gone before the poem's inquisitive speaker in Up-Hill?

9. What sort of descriptions does the poem's speaker give to her mood and what characterizes these descriptions in A Birthday?

10. For what reason is the poem's speaker in a celebratory mood in A Birthday?

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