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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 does the narrator describe at the beginning of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) The sights.
(b) The sounds.
(c) The smells.
(d) The touches.

2. What shines in 'Lightning'?
(a) The rain.
(b) The house lights.
(c) The oaks.
(d) The lake.

3. What does the narrator feel during the storm in 'Lightning'?
(a) Sensuality.
(b) All of these.
(c) Fear.
(d) Excitement.

4. What does the narrator of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron' build lots of when it grows cold?
(a) Meals.
(b) Graves.
(c) Fires.
(d) Homes.

5. What does the lightning teach the narrator about in 'Lightning'?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Creation.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the flowers in 'May' possess a certainty of?

2. What does the narrator in 'August' compare what she is eating to?

3. What is the only part of the narrator's body she is concerned with in 'August'?

4. What does the narrator of 'Humpbacks' compare the jumps of a humpback to?

5. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?

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