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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many snakes are seen by the narrator in 'The Snakes'?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. What storms in 'May'?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Blossoms.
(c) Rain.
(d) Leaves.

3. In 'The Honey Tree', what is found in the honey tree?
(a) Pure light.
(b) Stingers.
(c) Pain.
(d) Memories.

4. What dives into the storm in 'May'?
(a) The rain.
(b) The wind.
(c) The bees.
(d) The children.

5. What wanders with the narrator in 'White Night'?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The moon.
(c) The stars.
(d) The river.

6. What provides spiritual honey to the narrator of 'May'?
(a) The coming spring.
(b) The blossoms.
(c) The hum of the bees.
(d) The rain.

7. Where does the narrator of 'White Night' want to lose herself?
(a) Her dreams.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The currents.
(d) Her wishes.

8. In 'The Sea', what spills from the narrator's bones when she is by the sea?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Poetry.

9. Where did the narrator of' Music' first hear the music?
(a) By the sea.
(b) In a dream.
(c) In a church.
(d) In a forest glade.

10. What does the narrator of 'Music' compare the body to?
(a) A sweet forest glade.
(b) A prop for ears.
(c) A musical stanza.
(d) A honey locust tree.

11. What does the narrator of 'Blossom' say death is a state of?
(a) Necessity.
(b) Paralysis.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Being.

12. In 'Blackwater Woods', what is on the other side of the black river of loss?
(a) Experience.
(b) Joy.
(c) Humility.
(d) Salvation.

13. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) The water.
(b) The clouds.
(c) A man.
(d) Books.

14. What can the miracle that provides life provide in darkness?
(a) A map.
(b) Gentle direction.
(c) Light.
(d) Life lessons.

15. What does the narrator describe at the beginning of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) The smells.
(b) The touches.
(c) The sounds.
(d) The sights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the trees in the 'Blackwater Woods' give off?

2. How does the sea move, as described in the poem 'The Sea'?

3. In 'Humpbacks', what do the people do when the humpbacks appear?

4. What holds the Bluefish quietly?

5. What rubs its hands all over the narrator in 'Spring'?

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