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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 34 - 46 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker in "The Garden" find it unbearable to look at?
(a) The light rain.
(b) The fresh dirt.
(c) A young couple.
(d) A row of peas.

2. Who or what is the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?
(a) The horizon.
(b) The poet's husband.
(c) God.
(d) The poet.

3. How does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" describe human souls?
(a) Immortal.
(b) Empty.
(c) Vast, passionate things.
(d) Small talking things.

4. What has the young couple in "The Garden" not yet encountered according to the speaker?
(a) Life's great difficulties.
(b) Proof of God's existence.
(c) A successful vegetable garden.
(d) Doubt of God's existence.

5. Who is the speaker in "End of Summer"?
(a) God.
(b) Earth.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the daisies think people are more interested in than nature in "Daisies"?

2. What is one of the things God says He gifted to humanity in "Retreating Wind"?

3. What does the speaker say s/he regrets thinking of humanity as in "Matins" (#7)?

4. What does the speaker in "Love in Moonlight" say people sometimes force on one another?

5. What tree does the poet in "Matins" (#3) ask if God is like?

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