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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. What does God say people truly want in "Spring Snow"?
(a) God to come to them in human form.
(b) Not belief, but capitulation to authority.
(c) An obvious sign.
(d) Immortality.

2. What does the speaker in "Love in Moonlight" say people sometimes force on one another?
(a) Their religious fervor.
(b) Their passion.
(c) Their own despair.
(d) Their disbelief in God.

3. To whom is the speaker of "Wild Iris" speaking?
(a) God.
(b) The gardener.
(c) Death.
(d) The iris.

4. 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.

5. Who is the speaker in "Clear Morning"?
(a) God.
(b) The poet.
(c) The morning dew.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?

2. Who is the speaker in "April"?

3. What eartly image is referenced multiple times in "Love in Moonlight"?

4. How does the hawthorn tree observe the couple walking in the garden in "The Hawthorn Tree"?

5. What does the trillium flower in "Trillium" think some people need?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Noah say about depressives in "Matins" (#1)?

2. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?

3. Why does the hawthorn tree say it does not have to follow the couple to know what they are going through in "Hawthorn Tree"?

4. How does God feel about humanity in "Retreating Wind"?

5. What does God tell humanity is the only thing they will hear in the final lines of "End of Summer"?

6. In "Witchgrass," why does the witchgrass feel humans needed to give them a name?

7. What pain does the iris describe in "Wild Iris"?

8. What does the poet struggle with and search for in many of the poems in which she address God?

9. What does the witchgrass tell the gardener she must accept in regards to the flower it is accused of kllling in "Witchgrass"?

10. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?

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