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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pushes packed leaves in 'Spring'?
(a) The narrator's rake.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) The narrator's dog.
(d) A mouse.

2. What do the leaves on the honey tree look like?
(a) Badges.
(b) Dark hair.
(c) Fur.
(d) Warning signs.

3. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the coming morning to?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A glass shattering.
(c) A chaotic ending.
(d) An open shutter.

4. How does the narrator describe the movement of the creature described in the second part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) Smooth dancing.
(b) Gentle zigs.
(c) Small breaths.
(d) Quick gallops.

5. What does the narrator of 'Music' think is accountable for the music?
(a) The history.
(b) The ears.
(c) The memory.
(d) The heart.

6. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) The water.
(b) The clouds.
(c) Books.
(d) A man.

7. Which of these words does the narrator use to describe the rain in 'Spring'?
(a) Pale.
(b) Soft.
(c) All of these.
(d) Clean.

8. What is the narrator doing in 'White Night'?
(a) Writing.
(b) Floating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

9. What would make a paradise for the narrator of 'The Sea'?
(a) To be one with the sea.
(b) To have her life and her legs joined.
(c) To have her lover by her side.
(d) To spend her life by the sea.

10. What provides spiritual honey to the narrator of 'May'?
(a) The rain.
(b) The hum of the bees.
(c) The blossoms.
(d) The coming spring.

11. What do the frogs shout in 'Blossom'?
(a) Their poems.
(b) Their desires.
(c) Their needs.
(d) Their standards.

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

13. Where did the narrator of 'Music' later hear the music again?
(a) In her dreams.
(b) In her memories.
(c) At her workplace.
(d) Behind closed doors.

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

15. Which of these does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?
(a) Dance partners.
(b) Clouds billowing.
(c) Dripping honey.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator of 'Bluefish' doing when she saw the Bluefish?

2. What does the narrator of 'Humpbacks' compare the jumps of a humpback to?

3. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the muskrat's house to?

4. What is the animal in 'Happiness' doing?

5. What do the Bluefish eat?

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