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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. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) feel happens to her over and over at the start of the poem?
(a) She suffers the seasons.
(b) Her roses die.
(c) Her garden fails.
(d) Her heart breaks.

2. Who is the field of daisies addressing in "Daisies"?
(a) Th sun.
(b) The violets.
(c) A human.
(d) God.

3. The daisies in "Daisies" say that the mind wants to shine like what?
(a) Machines.
(b) The shimmering lake.
(c) The sun.
(d) Dew covered grass.

4. Who or what is the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?
(a) The poet.
(b) God.
(c) The poet's husband.
(d) The horizon.

5. Who or what does the speaker in "Heaven and Earth" observe as wanting it all as s/he stands on the horizon?
(a) God.
(b) The garden.
(c) John.
(d) The poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color do the sick trees turn in "Matins" (#5)?

2. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#3) wonder if God loves more than her?

3. What time of year is everything possible according to the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?

4. What is the "sign of blessedness" (30) referred to in "Clover"?

5. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#5) say she lives mostly in at the start of the poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the poet say were some of the signs God existed in her youth in "Vespers" (#6)?

2. What does the jacob's ladder plant think may be the reason for the woman's grief in "Jacob's Ladder"?

3. What does the flower ask the human at the start of "Field Flowers"?

4. Why does God tell humans that they need not fear death in "Harvest"?

5. What is different about John's peace in comparison to the poet's in "Vespers" (#4)?

6. What is different about the way the poet in "Song" sees the rose compared to how her husband sees it?

7. In "The Doorway," how does the poet liken the flowers in spring to a child's behavior?

8. Why does God say he is not pleased with His creations in "End of Summer"?

9. In what way is the speaker in "Matins" (#6) different from the sick rose?

10. What is the gardener in "Matins" (#5) doing while she pretends to weed?

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