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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the miracle that provides life provide in darkness?
(a) Light.
(b) Life lessons.
(c) Gentle direction.
(d) A map.

2. What swims in everyone in 'Blossom'?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The stars.
(d) The Earth.

3. What begins the day in 'Morning at Great Pond'?
(a) The squeak of a door.
(b) Screeches of birds.
(c) Forks of light.
(d) Memories of dreams.

4. What are compared to black blossoms in 'Blossom'?
(a) Ponds.
(b) The night.
(c) Winter.
(d) A bear.

5. How many snakes are seen by the narrator in 'The Snakes'?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

6. What kind of mythical creature does the narrator compare herself to in 'Music'?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A goat-like god.
(c) A goddess of the forest.
(d) A tree nymph.

7. What does the rising sun in 'Morning at Great Pond' make the night do?
(a) Bequeath its throne.
(b) Dissolve.
(c) Hide.
(d) Migrate.

8. What does the narrator feel inside her at the end of 'Fish'?
(a) Guilt.
(b) The fish.
(c) Blood.
(d) The sea.

9. What does the narrator of 'Blackwater Woods' say a man must love?
(a) God.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Others.
(d) Himself.

10. What was the narrator of 'Bluefish' doing when she saw the Bluefish?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Drifting.
(d) Writing.

11. Why does the narrator say humpbacks sing?
(a) For reasons man cannot understand.
(b) All of these.
(c) To show their inner-beauty.
(d) To communicate their desires.

12. What dives into the storm in 'May'?
(a) The wind.
(b) The rain.
(c) The bees.
(d) The children.

13. What makes the narrator of 'Fish' and the fish one?
(a) When it bites her.
(b) When she watches it die.
(c) When she releases it to the ocean.
(d) When she eats it.

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

15. In 'Blackwater Woods', what is on the other side of the black river of loss?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Humility.
(c) Joy.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of 'The Honey Tree' love as she climbs the honey tree?

2. What does the narrator describe at the beginning of 'Little Sister Pond'?

3. What kind of animal is featured in 'Happiness'?

4. What chops at people like an iron hoe in 'Blossom'?

5. What kind of life would the narrator of 'The Meeting' like to live?

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