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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are these two book lice opposites?
(a) They have contrasting reading interests.
(b) They are two different kinds of book lice.
(c) They are from different rooms in the house.
(d) They were born several months apart.

2. "Grasshoppers" describes the grasshoppers' _______________ movements and energy.
(a) Bounding.
(b) Slow.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Circular.

3. What is significant about the answer to number 38?
(a) It makes a firefly seem scary and strange.
(b) It makes a firefly very dangerous.
(c) It makes a firefly very similar to other species of insects.
(d) It makes a firefly truly distinct among insects.

4. What do the two lice spend this poem doing?
(a) Trying to climb to a higher shelf.
(b) Eating glue from the book bindings.
(c) Arguing with each other.
(d) Describing their lives on various book shelves and their life as a couple.

5. What is the mood of "Book Lice?"
(a) Serious.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Angry.
(d) Humorous.

6. How do the mayflies spend their time?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Frantically flying about.
(c) Eating.
(d) Lazily flying about.

7. What is the mood of "The Moth's Serenade?"
(a) Anxious.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Humorous.

8. How do the reactions of other insects compare to others in history regarding this feat?
(a) Only certain types of people can walk on water.
(b) People are jealous of those who can walk on water.
(c) Many people throughout history could walk on water.
(d) Jesus' disciples were also shocked that Jesus could walk on water.

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

10. What do the water striders call those they attempt to teach to walk on water?
(a) Their students.
(b) Their enemies.
(c) Their proteges.
(d) Their friends.

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

12. _______________ are used to help people to better understand the insect world around them.
(a) Insect behavior.
(b) Scientific words.
(c) Human emotion and perspective.
(d) Animal instincts.

13. The mayfly's birth and death take place when?
(a) One year apart.
(b) In the same day.
(c) At the beginning and end of one week.
(d) In different places.

14. Joyful Noise is a book of ____________.
(a) Short stories.
(b) Legal documents.
(c) Essays.
(d) Poems.

15. How does the poet accurately describe the behavior of a moth in this poem?
(a) By describing the way the moth moves.
(b) By giving it human emotions and feelings.
(c) By comparing the moth's movements to music.
(d) By having the two speakers talk at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of poem is "Moth's Serenade?"

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

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

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

5. Who reads which part of this book?

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