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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Whirligig Beetles and Requiem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mood of "Fireflies?"
(a) Excitement.
(b) Anger.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Bored.

2. How do the letters that are the answer to number 54 have emphasis placed on them?
(a) By only using words that begin with these letters.
(b) By using them at the beginning of most of the lines.
(c) By using them repeatedly.
(d) By putting them in bold print.

3. Besides F, what are three other frequently used letters in "Fireflies?"
(a) I, A, and E.
(b) W, R, and T.
(c) Q, V, and Z.
(d) G, P, and S.

4. How else do they spend their time?
(a) Mating.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Attacking other insects.
(d) Raising their children.

5. Where are the water boatmen headed?
(a) To the ocean.
(b) To the opposite shore.
(c) To the bottom of the pond.
(d) To the coral reef.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are people like the digger wasp?

2. Why might the cause of death of these insects be surprising to humans?

3. This sense reflects the movements of the whirligig beetle where?

4. Upon contemplating this poem and the deaths of these insects, one becomes more aware of what?

5. How are people like the mayfly?

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