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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 is the only part of the narrator's body she is concerned with in 'August'?
(a) Her stomach.
(b) Her tongue.
(c) Her lips.
(d) Her fingers.

2. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Hooray.
(b) Rain.
(c) Plunder.
(d) Help.

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

4. What does the narrator eat in 'August'?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Wheat bread.

5. What is thriving at the Boston Hospital?
(a) The nurses.
(b) The trees.
(c) The children.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Isaac when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?

2. What does the narrator in 'August' compare what she is eating to?

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

4. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?

5. What does the lightning teach the narrator about in 'Lightning'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the central theme in the first four poems?

2. In 'First Snow', what is brought about by the first snow?

3. What does the narrator in 'University Hospital, Boston' think about when she hears how old the hospital is?

4. What does the person in 'Skunk Cabbage' love about the woods?

5. What is the person in 'Skunk Cabbage' looking for, and what do they find?

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

7. What does the narrator say about the trees at the Boston Hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

8. What does the narrator of 'Egrets' say allows them to step without fear?

9. What is the main metaphor used in 'Lightning'?

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

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