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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poem 12, "The Marmalade Man Makes a Dance to Mend Us".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the emotion created during Poem 7?
(a) Fear.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Joy.
(d) Exuberance.

2. Through what does the Marmalade Man asks the other characters to follow him in Poem 12?
(a) The valley.
(b) Mist and maze.
(c) The moat.
(d) The Milky Way.

3. Who is the first character the boy meets in Poem 3?
(a) The Moon.
(b) A bear.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A girl.

4. What is the poetic form of Poem 3?
(a) Dactylic hexameter of a sonnet.
(b) Dactylic hexameter of a limerick.
(c) Anapestic rhythm of a limerick.
(d) Chastushka rhythm of a sonnet.

5. What is the object that the cow slept on in Poem 7?
(a) The star.
(b) The Moon.
(c) The grass.
(d) The cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many couplets exist in Poem 7?

2. Which character mentioned in Poem 7 offers the cow bread and butter?

3. When the boy is homesick, what does he wish for during Poem 3?

4. What does the boy's friend tell him will be as soft as hay in Poem 3?

5. In Poem 3, who should the boy be kept safe from?

(see the answer key)

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