American Primitive: Poems Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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American Primitive: Poems Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the dead kitten buried in 'The Kitten'?
(a) A garden.
(b) A field.
(c) A graveyard.
(d) A flower bed.

2. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?
(a) She uses a skeleton key.
(b) She breaks down the door.
(c) She climbs through a broken window.
(d) She climbs through a hole in the roof.

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

4. What does the narrator in 'August' compare what she is eating to?
(a) Nectar.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Honey.

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

6. What causes the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' to explode at times?
(a) The smell of grapes.
(b) Walking by it.
(c) The sound of thunder.
(d) Hearing footsteps.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why do some people not gather the mushrooms in 'Mushrooms'?
(a) They are in a hidden place.
(b) Some do not like them.
(c) Some are poison.
(d) They are protected.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?

3. What does the water turn to according to the metaphor in 'A Poem For the Blue Heron'?

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

5. What does the narrator say man has a secret love for in 'Cold Poem'?

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