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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the storm in 'Lightning' last?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 7 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

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

3. What did John Chapman call women in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Deceivers.
(b) Masked beings.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Creators.

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

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

6. In 'The Lost Children', what was near the footprints found of Lydia's?
(a) A bonnet.
(b) A cave.
(c) A house of sticks.
(d) All of these.

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

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

9. What does the narrator feel during the storm in 'Lightning'?
(a) Fear.
(b) All of these.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Sensuality.

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

11. Who heard John Chapman talking about women in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Mrs. Prue.
(b) Ms. Preece.
(c) Mrs. Price.
(d) Ms. Park.

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

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

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

15. What does John Chapman also use his hat for in 'John Chapman'?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Warmth.
(c) A weapon.
(d) Shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What blurs the moles' traceries in 'Moles'?

2. What does the narrator see sizzling under the door in 'Web'?

3. What did someone tell the narrator in the second part of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

4. What makes the crows so angry with the owl in 'Crows and Owls'?

5. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?

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