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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. The poet in "Matins" (#3) feels she has seen no proof of what?
(a) God's existence.
(b) The tree dying.
(c) Her garden will be successful.
(d) Her husband's love.

2. What is the meaning of the sound God says they will hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?
(a) No more.
(b) Nevermore.
(c) Hello.
(d) Good-bye.

3. The poet in "Matins" (#2) says humanity "took turns working the garden" (3) and never thought of who or what?
(a) The changing seasons.
(b) Their mortality.
(c) One another.
(d) God.

4. What tree does the poet in "Matins" (#3) ask if God is like?
(a) Birch.
(b) Pine.
(c) Hawthorn.
(d) Ash.

5. The poet in "Matins" (#1) refers to a conversation she had with whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her sister.
(d) He husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Snowdrops"?

2. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#4)?

3. Who is the speaker in "End of Winter"?

4. To whom is the speaker of "Wild Iris" speaking?

5. What does God see as an "Image of departure" (16) in "The Garden"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does God say he gave people in "End of Winter" because that is what they wanted?

2. How do the violets refer to the gardener in "Violets"?

3. In "Witchgrass," why does the witchgrass feel humans needed to give them a name?

4. What does Noah say about depressives in "Matins" (#1)?

5. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?

6. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) say in regards to the lesson God tried to teach humanity?

7. In "Witchgrass," the witchgrass tells the gardener that it will remain for how long?

8. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?

9. Why does God say He can hardly bare to look at the couple in the garden in "The Garden"?

10. In "Scilla," what does the scilla say to its human audience that reflects its feeling toward humanity?

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