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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May, White Night, The Fish, Honey at the Table and Crossing the Swamp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A sound.
(c) A thought.
(d) A vision.

2. What does the crow dream about in 'Crows and Owls'?
(a) Laying eggs.
(b) Finding a lover.
(c) Catching an owl.
(d) Beating a man.

3. What springs up behind John Chapman as he wanders in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Fond memories.
(b) Pixies.
(c) Weeds and thistles.
(d) Apple trees.

4. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the coming morning to?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) An open shutter.
(c) A chaotic ending.
(d) A glass shattering.

5. What makes the narrator of 'Fish' and the fish one?
(a) When it bites her.
(b) When she releases it to the ocean.
(c) When she eats it.
(d) When she watches it die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the whorehouse filled with?

2. What does the changing water remind the blue heron of in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?

3. Which of these does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?

4. What pulls the mushrooms in 'Mushrooms' from the ground?

5. What kind of home does the blue heron leave to find in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?

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