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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 does the speaker say s/he is not supposed to address God?
(a) Angrily.
(b) In the personal way.
(c) Condescendingly.
(d) Quietly.

2. What has the young couple in "The Garden" not yet encountered according to the speaker?
(a) A successful vegetable garden.
(b) Proof of God's existence.
(c) Life's great difficulties.
(d) Doubt of God's existence.

3. The poet in "Matins" (#3) ask God if what may be his goal?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Devotion.

4. In "Matins" (#1), what types of people does Noah say "hate the spring" (2)?
(a) Jovial.
(b) Depressives.
(c) Extroverts.
(d) Cold-blooded.

5. What sound is described at the beginning of "End of Winter"?
(a) The last snowfall.
(b) The wind.
(c) A birdcall.
(d) The falling leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day does the poem "End of Winter" describe at the beginning?

2. To whom does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) speak?

3. What does God tell humanity they will no hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?

4. What flowers "burst" up as a sign of spring in "The Garden"?

5. What does the speaker of "Scilla" say his audience treasures?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does God tell humanity is the only thing they will hear in the final lines of "End of Summer"?

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

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

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

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

6. Who is speaker in each of the "Matins" poems and who does the speaker address?

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

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

9. What surprises the snowdrop flower at the end of "Snowdrops"?

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

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