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"Success is counted sweetest..."

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers--..."

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

"The Soul selects her own Society--"

"A Bird came down the Walk--..."

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes--..."

"I died for Beauty--but was scarce..."

"I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--..."

"The Brain--is wider than the Sky--"

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What two images does Dickinson use to symbolize "success" in "Success is counted sweetest"?

(A) The nectar and the victorious army

(B) The nectar and the olive branch

(D) The laurel and the victorious army

What does the poet describe as "the Door ajar" in "I cannot live with you"?

(A) Her eye

(B) The prison window

(D) God's eye

Who is entombed near the speaker of "I died for Beauty"?

(A) One who died for Fame

(B) One who died for Truth

(D) Abraham Lincoln

Which of the following poets was Dickinson's close friend and mentor in Amherst?

(A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(B) Walt Whitman

(D) None of the above; Dickinson was not friends with any important poets.

In "Because I could not stop for Death," what does the speaker pass by during her carriage-ride with Death?

(A) A schoolyard, a college dance, and a parade

(B) A schoolyard, a ripened field, and a setting sun

(D) A ripened field, a battle, and a schoolyard

Which of the following does the bird not do in "A bird came down the walk"?

(A) Perch on the speaker's finger

(B) Eat an angleworm

(D) Fly away

What is "all we know of heaven / And all we need of hell"?

(A) Love

(B) Childbirth

(D) Parting

What can the brain absorb, according to one Dickinson lyric?

(A) The sea and all the rivers

(B) The sea and the land

(D) The sky and the sun

In "I heard a Fly buzz," what cuts the speaker off from the light?

(A) The hand of death

(B) The silhouette of her lover

(D) The fly's wing

Where did Dickinson die?

(A) At her family home in Amherst

(B) In a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota

(D) At sea, while traveling to visit her nephew in France

How many poems were discovered among Dickinson's belongings after she died?

(A) Nearly three hundred

(B) Nearly 1,800

(D) None; the unpublished poems were never found.

What animal is "public" in "I'm Nobody"?

(A) A bee

(B) A snake

(D) A frog

What does the speaker feel when she sees the snake in "A narrow Fellow"?

(A) Delight

(B) Despair

(D) A chill

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