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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poem 3, "A Rabbit Reveals My Room ".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked if the other characters are coming, which character in the Frontispiece replies "soon"?
(a) Air.
(b) Marmalade Man.
(c) Moon.
(d) Star.

2. What is accomplished by removing capitals and having simple, exact rhymes in Poem 2?
(a) The poem feels like a story.
(b) The reader is confused.
(c) The rhymes are forced.
(d) The story is hard to follow.

3. In Poem 3, who should the boy be kept safe from?
(a) The perilous starlight and the old moon's lunatic cat.
(b) The rabbit and the girl.
(c) The bear and the rabbit.
(d) The Marmalade Man.

4. What is Nancy Willard's role that gives her insight into the poetic form of Poem 1?
(a) A student.
(b) A dreamer.
(c) A professor of literature.
(d) A poet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character signs the dedication on the title page in the Introduction?

2. Which object mentioned in Poem 2 obligingly shrinks flat?

3. How many verses does Poem 1 contain and what is the rhyming pattern?

4. What is the traveler carrying?

5. What does the illustration for Poem 1 contain?

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