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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 does the mayfly desire?
(a) A shorter life.
(b) A longer life.
(c) More food.
(d) More friends.

2. 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.

3. In this poem, the viewer is ________________ the grasshoppers.
(a) Observing the actions of.
(b) One of.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Ignoring.

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

5. How does the worker bee spend his days?
(a) Eating bonbons and watching movies.
(b) Slaving away to provide for the hive.
(c) Flying around the hive looking for a mate.
(d) Lounging around or laying eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans can _________________ over people and things, much like the moth in "The Moth's Serenade."

2. How does the poet accurately describe the behavior of a moth in this poem?

3. The first thing that one notices when turning the page to the poem about whirligigs is what?

4. The digger wasp creates what for its children?

5. How else do they spend their time?

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