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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. Who is the speaker in "Scilla"?
(a) A scilla plant.
(b) An unknown human.
(c) A hawthorn tree.
(d) God.

2. Where does the speaker of "Retreating Wind" tell his audience they will not find what they are looking for?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In heaven.
(c) In prayer.
(d) In God's love.

3. To whom does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) speak?
(a) Her son.
(b) God.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The garden.

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

5. The poet in "Matins" (#1) disagrees with Noah, saying that she feels attached to what?
(a) The summer breeze.
(b) The living tree.
(c) The wild iris.
(d) The birdsong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did humanity want that they did not receive from God?

2. What does God say has never gotten in the way of human pleasure in "End of Winter"?

3. To whom is the speaker addressing in "Matins" (#3)?

4. The speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?

5. How does the witchgrass feel the gardener feels about it in "Witchgrass"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does God tell humans they will not hear "in the other world" (10) in "End of Summer"?

2. In "Love in Moonlight," how does the speaker describe how humans sometimes force their despair on others?

3. What does God say humanity truly wants in "Spring Snow"?

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

5. What does the poet struggle with and search for in many of the poems in which she address God?

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

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

8. Why does the hawthorn tree say it does not have to follow the couple to know what they are going through in "Hawthorn Tree"?

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

10. How does God feel about humanity in "Retreating Wind"?

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