5. The " box where sweets compacted lie " is a metaphor for
a) Any day of the year.
b) A piece of music.
c) The spring of the year.
d) A glowing rose.
e) A moon-flooded night
6. The speaker conceives of the world as
a) Ending in ashes.
b) Repeating the cycle of birth and death.
c) Having the strength of " seasoned timber. "
d) Eternal.
e) Being the secure dwelling of humanity
7. The last stanza in the poem
a) Repeats the theme of the first three stanzas.
b) Summarizes the ideas in the first three stanzas.
c) Expresses the theme of the poem.
d) Introduces a new thought.
e) Contrasts life with death
8. Which of the following thoughts are NOT expressed in the poem?
a) The virtuous soul never yields and is immortal.
b) The things of nature are mortal.
c) Music, like the human soul, is immortal.
d) The rose contains within its structure elements of its own destruction.
e) Spring is like a box of compacted candies.
9. The effect of the terse line at the end of each stanza is to
a) Emphasize the speaker's pessimism.
b) Dramatize the fate of the subject of each stanza.
c) Laud the power of death.
d) Stress the force of virtue.
e) Lead to a final positive assertion
10. The tone of the poem is
a) Melancholy.
b) Cynical.
c) Sanguine.
d) Pessimistic.
e) Exultant.
11. Two dramatic figures of speech used in the poem are
a) Apostrophe and metaphor.
b) Personification and synecdoche.
c) Metonymy and simile.
d) Hyperbole and simile.
e) Apostrophe and hyperbole
12. The word " bridal " in line 2 means
a) Offspring.
b) Ceremony.
c) Separation.
d) Marriage.
e) Space