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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the listener in 'Music' do?
(a) All of these.
(b) Stand as still as possible.
(c) Follow her.
(d) Listen.

2. What flows through the branches of the plum trees?
(a) Light.
(b) Warmth.
(c) Richness.
(d) Sugar.

3. What do the frogs shout in 'Blossom'?
(a) Their standards.
(b) Their needs.
(c) Their desires.
(d) Their poems.

4. What do the leaves on the honey tree look like?
(a) Badges.
(b) Fur.
(c) Warning signs.
(d) Dark hair.

5. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the coming morning to?
(a) A glass shattering.
(b) An open shutter.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A chaotic ending.

6. In 'Fish', where is the fish when he dies?
(a) A pail.
(b) A boat.
(c) A mud flat.
(d) The river.

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

8. Who is the wood duck calling to in 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) An intruder.
(b) Her hatchlings.
(c) Her mate.
(d) The narrator.

9. How does the narrator describe a muskrat in 'White Night'?
(a) Lethargic.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Luminous.

10. What does the narrator not want to do in 'White Night'?
(a) Argue.
(b) Wake up.
(c) Age.
(d) Startle the night.

11. What does the narrator of 'Bluefish' compare the Bluefish to as they eat?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A wave.
(c) A swarm.
(d) Fire.

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

13. In 'Humpbacks', what does the narrator say holds the most allure for people?
(a) Nature.
(b) Their dreams.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Their past.

14. What do the flowers in 'May' possess a certainty of?
(a) The place of our existence.
(b) Their coming death.
(c) Their potential for giving.
(d) Their reason for life.

15. What is the narrator doing in 'White Night'?
(a) Writing.
(b) Floating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What storms in 'May'?

2. How does the narrator describe her thoughts in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

3. What swarms around the animal in 'Happiness'?

4. What can the miracle that provides life provide in darkness?

5. What does the listener drown in in 'Music'?

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