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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator want to do to the stranger in 'Flying'?
(a) Touch him.
(b) Talk to him.
(c) Be with him.
(d) Take a picture of him.

2. How many crows hunt together in 'Crows and Owls'?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

3. Where does the snake hide when the rain comes in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) The ground.
(b) The lake.
(c) The grass.
(d) A tree.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John Chapman call women in 'John Chapman'?

2. In 'The Lost Children', what was near the footprints found of Lydia's?

3. Who killed a crow the week before in 'Crows and Owls'?

4. How did Isaac go missing in 'The Lost Children'?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do most people feel about vultures according to the narrator of 'Vultures'?

2. What do the Sioux say about ghosts in the poem 'Ghosts'?

3. Who was John Chapman?

4. In 'The Bobcat', what does the bobcat do that astounds the narrator?

5. What does the first snow do to familiar things in the poem 'First Snow'?

6. What question does the narrator want to ask the stranger on the plane in 'Flying'?

7. What is the ironic idea included in 'Mushrooms'?

8. What does the narrator of 'August' accept during the poem?

9. What does the narrator's companion tell her over and over while at the hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

10. What are the vultures in 'Vultures' compared to in an ironic analogy?

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