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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. With what exclamation does the poem's speaker respond to her auditor's curiosity in the first stanza of Winter: My Secret?
(a) Bah!
(b) No!
(c) Fie!
(d) Oh!

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

3. Who accompanies Gertrude and helps her with her large load of apples in An Apple Gathering?
(a) Lilias.
(b) Lilian.
(c) Thierry.
(d) Willy.

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

5. What does the poem's speaker have that cousin Kate does not in the poem of the same name?
(a) Wealth.
(b) A son.
(c) Fame.
(d) A coronet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In At Home, what is the topic of conversation for those yet living?

2. When was the deceased of An End born?

3. For what reason is Nell in Maude Clare pale?

4. Who is said to be dead in the first stanza in An End?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes the poem's speaker's commands to the rose and the bird in the first two stanzas of A Summer Wish?

2. What is implied to be the meaning of the poem by the final stanza of An End?

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

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

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

6. Why does the great lord cast aside the poem's speaker in Cousin Kate?

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

8. Who is the "she" of The World, and what indicates this interpretation?

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

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

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