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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 does the narrator not want to do in 'White Night'?
(a) Wake up.
(b) Age.
(c) Startle the night.
(d) Argue.

2. What has a captain in 'Humpbacks' seen a whale playing with?
(a) Seaweed.
(b) Life savers.
(c) Driftwood.
(d) Bubbles.

3. What rubs its hands all over the narrator in 'Spring'?
(a) The mist.
(b) The dog.
(c) The Spring.
(d) The rain.

4. What do the flowers in 'May' possess a certainty of?
(a) Their reason for life.
(b) Their coming death.
(c) The place of our existence.
(d) Their potential for giving.

5. What does the listener drown in in 'Music'?
(a) The pleasure.
(b) The river.
(c) The music.
(d) The mystery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the creature described in the second part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

2. What kind of life would the narrator of 'The Meeting' like to live?

3. Who is the wood duck calling to in 'Little Sister Pond'?

4. In 'Fish', what does the fish refuse to do?

5. What can the miracle that provides life provide in darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the lovers in 'Something' hear?

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

3. What are the snakes compared to in 'Snakes'?

4. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' say there is no end to?

5. How does the narrator of 'Crossing the Swamp' feel when she gets covered in the mud from the swamp?

6. What is the prayer whispered in 'The Garden', and who is it meant for?

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

8. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' compare the blooming of the roses to?

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

10. What does honey fill a person with according to the narrator of 'Honey at the Table'?

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