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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 eat in 'August'?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Wheat bread.
(d) Strawberries.

3. How did the narrator of 'The Kitten' feel when she buried the kitten?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Sad.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Confused.

4. What color is the snake in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

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

6. What does the crow dream about in 'Crows and Owls'?
(a) Beating a man.
(b) Finding a lover.
(c) Laying eggs.
(d) Catching an owl.

7. What was Lydia's last name in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Osmond.
(b) Oslynn.
(c) Ossin.
(d) Osborn.

8. What do the moles hide under in 'Moles'?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Leaves.

9. Where could the narrator in 'The Kitten' have taken the kitten?
(a) A museum.
(b) A vet.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) A land fill.

10. What did the narrator think Isaac caught when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Dancing feet.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Confusion of self.
(d) A will to live.

11. Which of these is used to describe the moles in 'Moles'?
(a) Shy.
(b) All of these.
(c) Hidden.
(d) Quick.

12. How old was Isaac when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

13. What charts the health of the patients at the hospital?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Machines.
(c) Nurses.
(d) All of these.

14. What was Isaac doing when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Going for a walk.
(c) Heading to school.
(d) Swimming.

15. In 'John Chapman', what state does John Chapman live in?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Isaac go missing in 'The Lost Children'?

2. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' say vanishes sometimes at Clapp's Pond?

3. What does John Chapman always try to honor in 'John Chapman'?

4. What season can John Chapman still be sensed in 'John Chapman'?

5. What beats the roof in 'Lightning'?

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