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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poem's first (or only) speaker guide towards himself in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) The lonely thrust of the world.
(b) The intellectual thirst of the mind.
(c) The deep yearnings of the heart.
(d) The unseen longings of the soul.

2. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?
(a) Never.
(b) What.
(c) If.
(d) Tears.

3. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
(a) Old.
(b) Cold.
(c) Gray.
(d) Sick.

4. The corpse of the speaker's beloved is worthy of the embrace of whom in Sister Maude?
(a) Love.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A princess.
(d) A queen.

5. Where does the poem's first (or only) speaker have power in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
(a) Only in heaven above.
(b) On earth.
(c) In earth and heaven above.
(d) In the hearts of all.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did "it" come to pass in May?

2. How many of the birds have foregone their mates at the passing of "it" in May?

3. With what does the poem's speaker say that her sister Maude, in the poem of the same name, ought to bide?

4. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the third stanza of A Better Resurrection?

5. What is the second enemy in The Three Enemies?

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