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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May, White Night, The Fish, Honey at the Table and Crossing the Swamp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are seen drinking at the Great Pond?
(a) Ducks.
(b) All of these.
(c) Herons.
(d) Deer.

2. What does the narrator recognize for the first time in 'Web'?
(a) Fear.
(b) Danger.
(c) Poison.
(d) Need.

3. What kills the fish in the poem, 'Fish'?
(a) A boat.
(b) The hook.
(c) The air.
(d) Another fish.

4. What kind of home does the blue heron leave to find in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?
(a) A nest.
(b) A shallow ditch.
(c) A tree.
(d) A cave.

5. What is thriving at the Boston Hospital?
(a) The trees.
(b) The children.
(c) Death.
(d) The nurses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the blue heron looking for in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

2. What was Lydia doing when she went missing in 'The Lost Children'?

3. What was Lydia's last name in 'The Lost Children'?

4. What does the narrator in 'August' compare what she is eating to?

5. According to 'John Chapman', what decision must people make when they are in pain?

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