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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is some of the vocabulary used by the poet to describe the grasshoppers?
(a) Bounders, leapers, springers, soarers, bounders, leapers, springers, soarers.
(b) Sliders, runners, sprinters. spinners.
(c) Hurdlers, racers, gymnasts, slow-moving.
(d) Acrobats, circlers, twirlers, flippers.

2. What words does the poet specifically use when he uses this literary device?
(a) The firefly dances like the dancers in Degas' paintings.
(b) The firefly lights up the entire night sky.
(c) Glimmering, gleaming, glowing.
(d) The light-hearted actions of the firefly is an allegory of spring.

3. Are the water striders able to successfully teach others to walk on water?
(a) Usually.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

4. How does the poet help the reader relate to fireflies?
(a) He compare the fireflies to athletes.
(b) He compares the fireflies to musicians.
(c) He compares the fireflies to artists.
(d) He compares the fireflies to dancers.

5. What does the water strider feel when its students cannot perform its special skill?
(a) Superiority.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The water strider's ability to walk on water hints at what?

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

3. Why does the mayfly feel nostalgia?

4. What is the definition of the literary device that is the answer to number 42?

5. Whom do the water striders try to teach to walk on water?

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