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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bluefish, The Honey Tree, In Blackwater Woods, The Plum Trees and The Gardens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the stranger in 'Flying'?
(a) Familiar.
(b) Strange.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Suspicious.

2. What kind of mythical creature does the narrator compare herself to in 'Music'?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A goddess of the forest.
(c) A goat-like god.
(d) A tree nymph.

3. What does the narrator of 'Blackwater Woods' say a man must love?
(a) Others.
(b) Mortality.
(c) God.
(d) Himself.

4. How old is the narrator when she walks through the whorehouse?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

5. What does the narrator say man has a secret love for in 'Cold Poem'?
(a) Their past.
(b) Their own bones.
(c) The sky.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What floats away on the ponds in the 'Blackwater Woods'?

2. What do the birds decide not to do in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

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

4. What was Lydia's last name in 'The Lost Children'?

5. Where are the packed leaves pushed in 'Spring'?

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