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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 was Isaac doing when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Going for a walk.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Heading to school.

2. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?
(a) She uses a skeleton key.
(b) She climbs through a hole in the roof.
(c) She breaks down the door.
(d) She climbs through a broken window.

3. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the muskrat's house to?
(a) A cave.
(b) A castle.
(c) A tent.
(d) An apartment.

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

5. What does the water turn to according to the metaphor in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?
(a) Mist.
(b) Glass.
(c) Memory.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the lightning teach the narrator about in 'Lightning'?

4. What is the whorehouse filled with?

5. What kills the fish in the poem, 'Fish'?

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