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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Humpbacks, A Meeting, Little Sister Pond, The Roses and Blackberries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator unsure she can do in 'Web'?
(a) Speak.
(b) Breathe.
(c) See.
(d) Walk.

2. Who does the narrator feel most sorry for in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) The parents.
(b) The abductors.
(c) The siblings.
(d) The children.

3. What did John Chapman call women in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Masked beings.
(b) Creators.
(c) Deceivers.
(d) Beauty.

4. In 'Fish', what does the fish refuse to do?
(a) Release the hook.
(b) Bite the hook.
(c) Leave its cave.
(d) Die quietly.

5. What does the rising sun in 'Morning at Great Pond' make the night do?
(a) Migrate.
(b) Dissolve.
(c) Hide.
(d) Bequeath its throne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the water turn to according to the metaphor in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?

2. What does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?

3. What has a captain in 'Humpbacks' seen a whale playing with?

4. What does the narrator recognize for the first time in 'Web'?

5. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?

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