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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. What do the birds decide not to do in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?
(a) Leave.
(b) Move.
(c) Die.
(d) Stay.

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

3. What does the listener drown in in 'Music'?
(a) The pleasure.
(b) The river.
(c) The music.
(d) The mystery.

4. How does the narrator describe her thoughts in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) Illuminating.
(b) Gentle.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Light.

5. What kind of body does the narrator want in 'The Sea'?
(a) Flaming.
(b) Watering.
(c) Flexible.
(d) Fluid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes nameless in the 'Blackwater Woods'?

2. What was the narrator of 'Bluefish' doing when she saw the Bluefish?

3. What touches the head of the muskrat in 'White Night'?

4. What does the narrator drop into the grass in 'The Meeting'?

5. Which of these does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?

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