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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character is still snoozing during all the activity of Poem 5?
(a) The tiger.
(b) The boy.
(c) The hedgehog.
(d) The raccoon.

2. Who are the characters in Poem 1 that make snowmen?
(a) Guards.
(b) Children.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Angels.

3. Which character possibly jumped over the moon during Poem 7?
(a) The boy.
(b) The cow.
(c) William Blake.
(d) The girl.

4. What is the biggest surprise awaiting the boy inside the room in Poem 3?
(a) A cat.
(b) A bear.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) The loft.

5. Which character in Poem 5 is happy to see the the Man in the Marmalade Hat?
(a) The rabbit.
(b) The boy.
(c) The tiger.
(d) William Blake.

6. Which character mentioned in Poem 5 wears dancing shoes?
(a) William Blake.
(b) The little girl.
(c) The Man in the Marmalade Hat.
(d) The boy.

7. Which characters mentioned during Poem 6 sleep in the upper regions of the house?
(a) The moles.
(b) The hedgehogs.
(c) The children.
(d) The mice.

8. Which characters mentioned during Poem 4 are busy working on another poem?
(a) The Sun and the Moon.
(b) The boy and the rabbit.
(c) William Blake and his assistant.
(d) The rabbit and the King of Cats.

9. Which character sings during Poem 6?
(a) The King of Cats.
(b) The boy.
(c) The King of Beasts.
(d) William Blake.

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

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

12. What does the illustration for Poem 1 contain?
(a) Two dragon cooks with yellow eyes.
(b) Nancy Willard sleeping.
(c) Blake fighting a dragon.
(d) Two angels playing with two children.

13. Which character ultimately reassures the boy in Poem 3?
(a) The bear.
(b) The Moon.
(c) The rabbit.
(d) The cat.

14. What is the main character's midnight snack in Poem 6?
(a) A hedgehog.
(b) A dozen lobster claws.
(c) A stew of nine mice.
(d) A plate of moles.

15. Which character calls everyone "my loves" in Poem 5?
(a) The raccoon.
(b) The child on the roof.
(c) The Man in the Marmalade Hat.
(d) William Blake.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, who explains how the book was born?

2. What is the quality of the place that the reader experience during the first verse of Poem 1?

3. Which character mentioned during the Introduction died two hundred years ago?

4. What is the object that the cow slept on in Poem 7?

5. What are the two objects that the Man in the Marmalade Hat carries in Poem 5?

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