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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sea, Happiness, Music, Climbing the Chagrin River and Tecumseh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' do when it starts to rain?
(a) Dances in the rain.
(b) Makes her way home.
(c) Goes inside her tent.
(d) Puts more logs on the fire.

2. What does John Chapman always try to honor in 'John Chapman'?
(a) The law.
(b) God's creations.
(c) The Indians.
(d) Government officials.

3. What do the flowers in 'May' possess a certainty of?
(a) Their potential for giving.
(b) The place of our existence.
(c) Their reason for life.
(d) Their coming death.

4. What blurs the moles' traceries in 'Moles'?
(a) Grass.
(b) Rain.
(c) Fieldwork.
(d) Wind.

5. Who is the wood duck calling to in 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) Her mate.
(b) The narrator.
(c) An intruder.
(d) Her hatchlings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of home does the blue heron leave to find in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?

2. What are compared to black blossoms in 'Blossom'?

3. How old is the narrator when she walks through the whorehouse?

4. What does the crow dream about in 'Crows and Owls'?

5. What beats the roof in 'Lightning'?

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