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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cold Poem, A Poem for the Blue Heron, Flying, Postcard from Flamingo and Vultures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the stranger in 'Flying'?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Familiar.
(d) Strange.

2. Who killed a crow the week before in 'Crows and Owls'?
(a) A hawk.
(b) An owl.
(c) A man.
(d) A fox.

3. What does the narrator say happens to the woods in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?
(a) They get noisy.
(b) They get empty.
(c) They become dangerous.
(d) They grow in silence.

4. In 'Clapp's Pond', how wide is Clapp's Pond?
(a) 4 miles.
(b) 3 miles.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 1 mile.

5. Which of these is used to describe the moles in 'Moles'?
(a) Hidden.
(b) Quick.
(c) Shy.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' do when it starts to rain?

2. What is the blue heron looking for in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

3. Where could the narrator in 'The Kitten' have taken the kitten?

4. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' say vanishes sometimes at Clapp's Pond?

5. In 'The Lost Children', what was near the footprints found of Lydia's?

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