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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another mood that can be felt while reading "The Digger Wasp"?
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Hope.
(c) Passion.
(d) Fear.

2. Why is the answer to number 90 repeated in the poem?
(a) This repetition is meant to annoy the reader.
(b) This repetition shows how important these insects are.
(c) This repetition shows how fast the boatmen must swim.
(d) This repetition creates the rhythm of the insects' oars as they slice through the water.

3. "The Digger Wasp" is told from whose perspective?
(a) Another insect.
(b) A narrator.
(c) The adult digger wasp.
(d) A young digger wasp.

4. What tool is used by the poet to express the beetles' qualities?
(a) The repetition of words in the poem.
(b) The unison sections of the two speakers' parts.
(c) The overlapping of the two speakers' parts.
(d) The simple language found in this poem.

5. Water boatmen are compared to whom?
(a) Skiers.
(b) Divers.
(c) Rowers.
(d) Dancers.

Short Answer Questions

1. This poem pays respect to these insects when?

2. How are people like the water boatmen?

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

4. Why do the two parts do this?

5. For what else does the digger wasp prepare?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this mood in "The Digger Wasp" change? Why?

2. Why are these insects compared to rowers?

3. Describe the whirligig beetle, based on this poem.

4. How can the world of the honeybee be compared to your own world?

5. From whose perspective is "Honeybees?" Why?

6. How does this poem draw attention to nature and the life cycle of insects?

7. What are the moods of this poem? Why do they differ?

8. How could a person relate to a day in the life of the whirligig beetle?

9. What is the mood of "Cicadas?" Why?

10. How are cicadas like a choir?

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