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

2. How long does the storm in 'Lightning' last?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 7 hours.
(d) 5 hours.

3. What does the narrator of 'Cold Poem' say men become when it grows colder?
(a) Wise and old.
(b) Bold and fearful.
(c) Pure and innocent.
(d) Cruel and honest.

4. How old was Isaac when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. What do the moles find delicious in 'Moles'?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Sand.
(c) Work.
(d) Darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crow dream about in 'Crows and Owls'?

2. What was in the attic in 'Web'?

3. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?

4. What does the dust try to hide in the whorehouse?

5. What does the narrator recognize for the first time in 'Web'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is 'Ghosts' really about?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the narrator of 'Fall Song' describe the present time?

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

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

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

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