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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 drop into the grass in 'The Meeting'?
(a) A book.
(b) A package.
(c) A weapon.
(d) A dress.

2. What does the trapdoor do in 'Web'?
(a) Bars her inside.
(b) Sings and squeals.
(c) Breaks away.
(d) Unnails itself.

3. What provides spiritual honey to the narrator of 'May'?
(a) The blossoms.
(b) The hum of the bees.
(c) The rain.
(d) The coming spring.

4. What does the narrator want to do at the end of 'The Meeting'?
(a) Prolong her life.
(b) Undo mistakes.
(c) See her child once more.
(d) Live her life over again.

5. What is the whorehouse filled with?
(a) Bones.
(b) Old clothing.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Cobwebs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did someone tell the narrator in the second part of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

2. What does the narrator of 'Blossom' say death is a state of?

3. What is the country made of in 'Humpbacks'?

4. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?

5. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

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