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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spring, Morning at Great Pond, The Snakes, Blossom and Something.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is used to describe the moles in 'Moles'?
(a) All of these.
(b) Shy.
(c) Hidden.
(d) Quick.

2. What do the birds decide not to do in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?
(a) Die.
(b) Move.
(c) Leave.
(d) Stay.

3. How old was Isaac when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

4. Who pushes packed leaves in 'Spring'?
(a) A mouse.
(b) The narrator's rake.
(c) A squirrel.
(d) The narrator's dog.

5. What rubs its hands all over the narrator in 'Spring'?
(a) The Spring.
(b) The mist.
(c) The rain.
(d) The dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she is close to in 'Cold Poem'?

2. What does John Chapman always try to honor in 'John Chapman'?

3. According to 'John Chapman', what decision must people make when they are in pain?

4. What does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?

5. What does the narrator of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron' build lots of when it grows cold?

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