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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 34 - 46 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman in "The Garden" do as a sign of truce when the couple disagree about whether to stop or continue?
(a) She touches the man's cheek.
(b) She nods her head.
(c) She quietly continues.
(d) She shakes the man's hand.

2. The speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?
(a) Fragile.
(b) Circular.
(c) Dependent on the sun.
(d) Dependent on other humans.

3. What time of year is everything possible according to the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?
(a) Early fall.
(b) Midsummer.
(c) Late winter.
(d) Early spring.

4. What do the daisies think people are more interested in than nature in "Daisies"?
(a) Reading.
(b) Technology.
(c) Writing about nature.
(d) Video games.

5. Who is the speaker in "Field Flowers"?
(a) God.
(b) A human.
(c) A field of flowers.
(d) The grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#5)?

2. Who is the speaker in "Witchgrass"?

3. Who is the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder"?

4. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he should be buried with at the end of the poem?

5. What does the person in "Vespers" (#1) say she struggles to share with her husband and son?

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