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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. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) address?
(a) The aphids.
(b) The gardener.
(c) The sick rose.
(d) God.
2. What is the gardener in "Matins" (#5) pretending to do in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Harvest her vegetables.
(b) Water the plants.
(c) Pray.
(d) Weed the garden.
3. Why does the red poppy say it is speaking at the end of "The Red Poppy"?
(a) Because it cares for humanity.
(b) Because it has found God.
(c) Because it is scared.
(d) Because it is shattered.
4. What does the person in "Vespers" (#1) try to plant as a test of God's existence?
(a) A tomato crop.
(b) A peach tree.
(c) A fig tree.
(d) An apricot tree.
5. Who is the field of daisies addressing in "Daisies"?
(a) Th sun.
(b) God.
(c) The violets.
(d) A human.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the speaker in "Field Flowers"?
2. What time of year does the poet in "The Doorway" wish she could remain forever?
3. What color do the sick trees turn in "Matins" (#5)?
4. What season is described at the start of "Vespers" (#6)?
5. Who does the speaker in "Field Flowers" address?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is different about the way the poet in "Song" sees the rose compared to how her husband sees it?
2. How does God see humanity in "Midsummer"?
3. In "Doorway," what does the poet say the one who waits has the benefit of observing?
4. What is the gardener in "Matins" (#5) doing while she pretends to weed?
5. What does the poet in "Heaven and Earth" question in regards to her husband at the end of the poem?
6. What does the jacob's ladder plant think may be the reason for the woman's grief in "Jacob's Ladder"?
7. What does the poet in "Vespers" (#2) tell God she failed to do at the start of the poem?
8. In what way is the speaker in "Matins" (#6) different from the sick rose?
9. "In Doorway," how does the poet describe the late spring?
10. In "Daisies," what do the daisies tell the poet will happen is she tries to share her "impressions of the natural world" (39) with others?
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