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

2. In 'The Lost Children', what was near the footprints found of Lydia's?
(a) A house of sticks.
(b) A bonnet.
(c) A cave.
(d) All of these.

3. What do the birds decide not to do in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?
(a) Move.
(b) Die.
(c) Leave.
(d) Stay.

4. What does the narrator dream about in 'Cold Poem'?
(a) Snow and ice.
(b) Flowers and rain.
(c) Harvest and feasts.
(d) Fruit and grain.

5. How did Isaac go missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He got lost.
(c) He fell in a pit.
(d) He was stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crow call in 'Rain in Ohio'?

2. What is the whorehouse filled with?

3. What does the narrator say moles accomplish during their lives in 'Moles'?

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

5. What does the narrator of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron' build lots of when it grows cold?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think about while watching nature in Flamingo?

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator see before leaving the hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

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

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

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

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

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

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