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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 do the singing birds want to come out of the ground in "Our Singing Strength"?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Worms.
(c) Trees.
(d) Grass.

2. Frost says that the horse in "The Runaway" is shaking its coat like it is shaking off _________________.
(a) Rain.
(b) Flies.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) A rider.

3. What is scattered in the poem "Evening in a Sugar Orchard"?
(a) Fruit.
(b) People.
(c) Love.
(d) Stars.

4. What color was the object beyond Frost's reflection in the well in "For Once, Then, Something"?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silver.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

5. What does the couple in "Two Look at Two" see standing on the other side of a wall?
(a) A doe.
(b) A calf.
(c) A cow.
(d) A fawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Tree at My Window," Frost compares the tossing of the tree in the wind to the tossing of the speaker's _______________.

2. According to Frost In "Spring Pools," what will happen to the puddles?

3. Where are all the other animals in "The Runaway"?

4. In "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" what is breath's partner?

5. What mood is created in "Departmental"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What wish does "The Runaway" end with?

2. What does the character confess in the final line of "Bereft"?

3. What miracle foes "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" contemplate?

4. What happens to the town the character in "The Census-Taker" is responsible for?

5. What does the couple feel at the end of "Two Look at Two"?

6. What do the man and wife want to do with the brook in "The West-Running Brook"?

7. What does the poem "Departmental" describe?

8. What is the perspective "Canis Major" is written from?

9. In "A Serious Step Lightly Taken" what has the property seen?

10. What is unusual about the bird in "The Oven Bird"?

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