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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 does the great lord fill the poem's speaker's heart in the first stanza of Cousin Kate?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Care.
(d) Bewilderment.

2. In Dream Land, towards what direction does the poem's subject face?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) South.

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

4. In At Home, of what was the speaker in comparison to the conversation of those yet living?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Inebriation.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) The sea.

5. What is placed at the foot of the deceased in the first stanza of An End?
(a) A stone.
(b) A rose.
(c) A poem.
(d) A tear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lyrical form of poem is Remember?

2. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?

3. What does the poem's speaker do with the blossoms she picks from her apple tree in An Apple Gathering?

4. What happens to the golden fruit in summer, as said in the fourth stanza of Winter: My Secret?

5. Of what does Maude Clare, in the poem of the same name, wash her hands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is meant by the line "Or in this world, or in the world to come" in the last stanza of The First Spring Day?

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

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

6. What fills the poem's speaker with sadness in At Home?

7. For what is the speaker of Echo in longing?

8. Why, of all the women in A Triad, do none achieve life?

9. How does Maude betray her sister, the speaker in Sister Maude?

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

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