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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 sprouts in the lane in Spring?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Hedges.
(c) Grass.
(d) Roots.

2. How do the goblins in Goblin Market react to Laura's sister's attempt to purchase their fruit?
(a) They beat the sister.
(b) They sell the sister rotten fruit.
(c) They laugh and go away.
(d) They disappear into thin air.

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

4. Of what are the souls of the dream in the second stanza of Echo "brimful"?
(a) Love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Weariness.
(d) Sleep.

5. What is the last word of Spring?
(a) Die.
(b) Live.
(c) Life.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the present given to the poem's lordly subject by Maude Clare in the poem of the same name?

2. Who accompanies Gertrude and helps her with her large load of apples in An Apple Gathering?

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

4. What is the name of Maude Clare's male subject?

5. By what does the auditor of the poem regularly hold the speaker in Remember?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Maude betray her sister in Sister Maude?

2. What is a possible interpretation of the meaning of the last four lines of Dream Land?

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

4. What is the meaning of the phrase, "Where thirsting longing eyes / Watch the slow door / That opening, letting in, lets out no more" in Echo?

5. What is to be inferred from the last clause of After Death, "and very sweet it is / To know he still is warm though I am cold"?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. For what reason does the speaker ostensibly envy the rose and bird in A Summer Wish?

9. What characterizes the tone of the speaker in the last six lines of Remember?

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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