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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 do men protect themselves when it grows colder, according to 'Cold Poem'?
(a) They gather close to those they love.
(b) They listen to their bodies.
(c) They go to church.
(d) They kill others.

2. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?
(a) A sound.
(b) A vision.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) A thought.

3. What does the changing water remind the blue heron of in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Mating.
(d) Migration.

4. What did John Chapman call women in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Creators.
(c) Masked beings.
(d) Deceivers.

5. What was Isaac's last name in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Rane.
(b) Fane.
(c) Dane.
(d) Zane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What charts the health of the patients at the hospital?

2. How many crows hunt together in 'Crows and Owls'?

3. What does the narrator in 'August' compare what she is eating to?

4. How did Isaac go missing in 'The Lost Children'?

5. What does the dust try to hide in the whorehouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ironic idea included in 'Mushrooms'?

2. What does the narrator in 'University Hospital, Boston' think about when she hears how old the hospital is?

3. What question is asked at the beginning of 'Ghosts'?

4. What question does the narrator want to ask the stranger on the plane in 'Flying'?

5. How does the narrator of 'Fall Song' describe the present time?

6. What does the narrator's companion tell her over and over while at the hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

7. What does the narrator say about the trees at the Boston Hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

8. What does the first snow do to familiar things in the poem 'First Snow'?

9. What are the vultures in 'Vultures' compared to in an ironic analogy?

10. What does the narrator of 'August' accept during the poem?

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