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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. How are people like the digger wasp?
(a) People have wings.
(b) People never live to see their offspring.
(c) People are insects.
(d) People also make sacrifices for each other.

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

3. Like the mayfly, people often have feelings of nostalgia towards what?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their families.
(c) People do not feel nostalgic.
(d) Their youth.

4. According to these beetles, this ____________ way of moving is the best way to move.
(a) Slow.
(b) Round about and indirect.
(c) Fast.
(d) Straightforward.

5. "Fireflies" tells of the _________ of a firefly.
(a) Life.
(b) Food.
(c) Light.
(d) Sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have the cicadas spent in the dark?

2. The poet compares the firefly to what?

3. What do the two lice spend this poem doing?

4. Where are the water boatmen headed?

5. What names are used to describe the water boatmen?

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