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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Isaac feel when he returned to the world in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Alone.
(b) Happy.
(c) Lost.
(d) Relieved.

2. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Plunder.
(b) Help.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hooray.

3. How many people does the narrator walk through the whorehouse with in 'An Old Whorehouse'?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. What beats the roof in 'Lightning'?
(a) Tree branches.
(b) Rain.
(c) Hail.
(d) Rocks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shines in 'Lightning'?

2. What does the narrator say happens to the woods in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

3. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' do when it starts to rain?

4. What did the narrator think Isaac caught when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?

5. What does the narrator say man has a secret love for in 'Cold Poem'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator's companion tell her over and over while at the hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

2. What do the Sioux say about ghosts in the poem 'Ghosts'?

3. What question does the narrator want to ask the stranger on the plane in 'Flying'?

4. What is the main metaphor used in 'Lightning'?

5. How do most people feel about vultures according to the narrator of 'Vultures'?

6. How does the narrator feel as she drives to the White Forest in 'The Bobcat'?

7. What is the central theme in the first four poems?

8. What does the narrator of 'August' accept during the poem?

9. What is the person in 'Skunk Cabbage' looking for, and what do they find?

10. What chafes the narrator in 'Fall Song'?

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