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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker command to sing in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
(a) The robin.
(b) The nightingale.
(c) Spring.
(d) Hope.

2. With what disease is "she" afflicted as the moon changes in The World?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Shingles.
(c) Measles.
(d) Leprosy.

3. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Long.
(c) Brief.
(d) Bitter.

4. "Until the ancient race of Time be run," what shall morning be in The One Certainty?
(a) Warm.
(b) Cold.
(c) Kept at bay.
(d) Gray.

5. With what does the speaker watch and wait in the second stanza of A Pause of Thought?
(a) A bottle of gin.
(b) A steadfast will.
(c) Slothful youth.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is man "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?

2. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?

3. How do the grave flowers shed their leaves in Sweet Death?

4. What does the speaker command to sing in the second stanza of The First Spring Day?

5. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?

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