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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A doe.
(c) An egret.
(d) A pheasant.

2. What does the changing water remind the blue heron of in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?
(a) Mating.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Migration.

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

4. What does the narrator see sizzling under the door in 'Web'?
(a) Electric lights.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Ambulance lights.
(d) Lightning.

5. What did someone tell the narrator in the second part of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?
(a) All things are for a reason.
(b) Some things are impossible.
(c) She is limited.
(d) God has abandoned man.

6. What blurs the moles' traceries in 'Moles'?
(a) Grass.
(b) Fieldwork.
(c) Wind.
(d) Rain.

7. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' do when it starts to rain?
(a) Goes inside her tent.
(b) Dances in the rain.
(c) Makes her way home.
(d) Puts more logs on the fire.

8. What does the water turn to according to the metaphor in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?
(a) Fire.
(b) Glass.
(c) Mist.
(d) Memory.

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

10. What does the lightning teach the narrator about in 'Lightning'?
(a) Creation.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Fear.

11. What pulls the mushrooms in 'Mushrooms' from the ground?
(a) All of these.
(b) The rains.
(c) The winds.
(d) The moisture.

12. What does the dust try to hide in the whorehouse?
(a) The past.
(b) The sin.
(c) The glamour.
(d) The allure.

13. 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.

14. According to 'John Chapman', what decision must people make when they are in pain?
(a) To feel or ignore.
(b) To die or continue.
(c) To prosper or fail.
(d) To heal or fester.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What springs up behind John Chapman as he wanders in 'John Chapman'?

2. Why do some people not gather the mushrooms in 'Mushrooms'?

3. How did Isaac feel when he returned to the world in 'The Lost Children'?

4. How long does the storm in 'Lightning' last?

5. What is thriving at the Boston Hospital?

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