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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mayflies and Fireflies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This poem is also filled with ___________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Danger.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Humor.

2. How do the mayflies view their lives?
(a) As a relatively long time.
(b) As a waste of time.
(c) As entirely too long.
(d) As a relatively short time.

3. Only when does the mayfly seem to feel nostalgia?
(a) It never feels nostalgia.
(b) At the beginning of the poem.
(c) In the middle of the poem.
(d) At the end of the poem.

4. This speaking imitates ___________.
(a) The movements of the grasshoppers.
(b) The movements of the young grasshoppers.
(c) The movements of the old grasshoppers.
(d) The movements of one grasshopper.

5. The water strider's ability to walk on water hints at what?
(a) The strange abilities of some insects.
(b) The lack of talent other insects have.
(c) Jesus Christ's ability to walk on water.
(d) Jesus Christ's ability to change water into wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what else does the poet also compare the firefly?

2. What does the vocabulary in "Grasshoppers" do for the readers?

3. How else do they spend their time?

4. "Grasshoppers" is written so that the readers do what?

5. Who reads which part of this book?

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