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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. How many stanzas are there in "Design"?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. What kind of poem is "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"?
(a) Heroic.
(b) Sad.
(c) Love.
(d) Epic.

3. In "Canis Major," in what manner does the constellation move from east to west?
(a) Walking.
(b) Prancing.
(c) Gliding.
(d) Floating.

4. What does the man do in "A Minor Bird" to try and silence the bird?
(a) Blowing hot air at the bird.
(b) Cutting down the treest.
(c) Clap his hands.
(d) Shoot the bird.

5. On what type of map does the family find a place In "A Serious Step Lightly Taken"?
(a) Detailed.
(b) Digital.
(c) Topographical.
(d) Vague.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Patch of Old Snow," what is compared to the snow patch?

2. The friends in "A Boundless Moment" think that the pale thing they saw in the distance is a flower until they remember that it is the month of ________________.

3. What is scattered in the poem "Evening in a Sugar Orchard"?

4. Frost says that the horse in "The Runaway" is shaking its coat like it is shaking off _________________.

5. What does the ant meet in "Departmental" ?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the cow do in "A Cow in Apple Time" once she is on a sugar high?

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

5. What does Frost observe about fireflies in "Fireflies in the Garden"?

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

7. What is the main focus of "A Brook in the City"?

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

9. How does Frost describe the constellation in "Canis Major"?

10. In "The White-Tailed Hornet" what is Frost's reflection about humanity?

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