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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 man has a secret love for in 'Cold Poem'?
(a) Their own bones.
(b) Their past.
(c) The sky.
(d) God.

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

3. What does the narrator say moles accomplish during their lives in 'Moles'?
(a) Wreaking havoc.
(b) Everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Replenishing the earth.

4. What do some people label the beast in 'Tasting the Wild Grapes' as?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A sound.
(c) A vision.
(d) A thought.

5. What month does the narrator of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron' see the blue heron?
(a) August.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) October.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?

2. What does the narrator say she is close to in 'Cold Poem'?

3. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' say vanishes sometimes at Clapp's Pond?

4. Where could the narrator in 'The Kitten' have taken the kitten?

5. What did the narrator think Isaac caught when he went missing in 'The Lost Children'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does personification fit in 'Lightning'?

3. What chafes the narrator in 'Fall Song'?

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

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

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

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

8. What is 'Ghosts' really about?

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

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

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