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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator compare sin to in 'An Old Whorehouse'?
(a) Memories.
(b) Tar.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Stagnant water.

3. What was Isaac's last name in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) Fane.
(b) Rane.
(c) Dane.
(d) Zane.

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

5. What is the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes'?
(a) A skunk.
(b) A fox.
(c) A heron.
(d) A rabbit.

6. What was in the attic in 'Web'?
(a) A Black Widow.
(b) A snake.
(c) A bat.
(d) A bird.

7. How did Isaac go missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) He fell in a pit.
(b) He was stolen.
(c) He got lost.
(d) He ran away.

8. What springs up behind John Chapman as he wanders in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Weeds and thistles.
(b) Pixies.
(c) Fond memories.
(d) Apple trees.

9. What beats the roof in 'Lightning'?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Hail.
(c) Tree branches.
(d) Rain.

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

11. What does the narrator say she is close to in 'Cold Poem'?
(a) Nature.
(b) The edge.
(c) Winter.
(d) Death.

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

13. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Help.
(b) Plunder.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hooray.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the moles hide under in 'Moles'?

2. What does John Chapman use as a hat in 'John Chapman'?

3. Who heard John Chapman talking about women in 'John Chapman'?

4. According to 'John Chapman', what decision must people make when they are in pain?

5. What does the dust try to hide in the whorehouse?

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