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

2. What does the listener in 'Music' do?
(a) Stand as still as possible.
(b) All of these.
(c) Listen.
(d) Follow her.

3. In 'Fish', what does the fish refuse to do?
(a) Die quietly.
(b) Bite the hook.
(c) Leave its cave.
(d) Release the hook.

4. What makes the narrator of 'Fish' and the fish one?
(a) When she watches it die.
(b) When she eats it.
(c) When she releases it to the ocean.
(d) When it bites her.

5. What does the narrator of 'Bluefish' compare the Bluefish to as they eat?
(a) A swarm.
(b) Fire.
(c) A wave.
(d) A cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are seen drinking at the Great Pond?

2. What do the frogs shout in 'Blossom'?

3. What provides spiritual honey to the narrator of 'May'?

4. What touches the head of the muskrat in 'White Night'?

5. What does the narrator want to do at the end of 'The Meeting'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tecumseh mean?

2. What does the narrator say mankind is nourished by in 'The Fish'?

3. What is the narrator's head full of in 'Blackberries'?

4. What does the narrator of 'Honey at the Table' say the taste of honey is composed of?

5. What does the narrator of 'Crossing the Swamp' find in the swamp?

6. What does the narrator of 'Tecumseh' say is worse than risking death?

7. What do the fish do in the secret pools in 'Climbing the Chagrin River'?

8. In 'Crossing the Swamp', what does the narrator say she hopes to make of her life?

9. What is said to have happened to Tecumseh's body?

10. What is the first big question asked of the reader in 'Tecumseh'?

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