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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far does the road wind uphill in the poem of the same name?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Halfway.
(c) All the way.
(d) Most of the way.

2. What word describes the feet of the "she" in The World?
(a) Club.
(b) Sleek.
(c) Stunted.
(d) Cloven.

3. How many beds will there be at the resting place in Up-Hill?
(a) Only a few.
(b) Enough for everyone.
(c) Just one.
(d) An infinite amount.

4. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
(a) Earthward.
(b) Internally.
(c) Nowhere fixed.
(d) Upward.

5. By what is man "tossed to and fro" in The One Certainty?
(a) Hope and fear.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Death and judgment.
(d) Heaven and hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the speaker's heart sick in truth in the first stanza of A Pause of Thought?

2. In the second stanza of The Three Enemies, of the third enemy, what is it said that the second speaker shall win?

3. What is the third enemy in The Three Enemies?

4. What thirsts for the poem's first (or only) speaker of A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?

5. To what does the speaker compare her life in the second stanza of A Better Resurrection?

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