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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the moles find delicious in 'Moles'?

2. What is the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes'?

3. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?

4. How did Isaac feel when he returned to the world in 'The Lost Children'?

5. What blurs the moles' traceries in 'Moles'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does personification fit in 'Lightning'?

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

3. What kind of annoyances does the narrator of 'Egrets' face while going to see the egrets?

4. What does the narrator of 'Egrets' say allows them to step without fear?

5. What is the person in 'Skunk Cabbage' looking for, and what do they find?

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

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

8. What does the narrator think about while watching nature in Flamingo?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was John Chapman, and how did he change the history and landscape of America?

Essay Topic 2

Through these poems, Oliver presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on life. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism affect the tone of her literature?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in these poems and where does it appear? How is the tone and meaning of the poems altered by the presence of these symbols?

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