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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Humpbacks, A Meeting, Little Sister Pond, The Roses and Blackberries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the shark heading for the seals in 'Cold Poem'?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Obscure.

2. What does the narrator feel inside her at the end of 'Fish'?
(a) The fish.
(b) Blood.
(c) Guilt.
(d) The sea.

3. What chops at people like an iron hoe in 'Blossom'?
(a) Seasons.
(b) Time.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Nature.

4. What did the narrator think Isaac caught when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Adventure.
(b) Dancing feet.
(c) Confusion of self.
(d) A will to live.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?

2. What is the country made of in 'Humpbacks'?

3. In 'Fish', where is the fish when he dies?

4. What does the narrator want to do to the stranger in 'Flying'?

5. What does the narrator compare sin to in 'An Old Whorehouse'?

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