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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 12 - 23 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does God say "glitters like the moon" (9) in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) The garden.
(c) The earth.
(d) The snowfall.

2. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?
(a) The rains.
(b) Death.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Summer.

3. What does the speaker of "Scilla" call his audience?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Master.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Fool.

4. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?
(a) Planting irises.
(b) Planting a row of peas.
(c) Weeding the garden.
(d) Planting tomato plants.

5. Where does the speaker tell the couple they have no place in thinking such things in "April"?
(a) Church.
(b) Earth.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?

2. What does the poet say followed humanities exile from heaven in "Matins" (#2)?

3. What does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" say he feels for his audience in the first lines?

4. What does the witchgrass say the garden bed is a paradigm of in "Witchgrass"?

5. The poet in "Matins" (#3) ask God if what may be his goal?

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