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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 of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron' build lots of when it grows cold?
(a) Fires.
(b) Homes.
(c) Graves.
(d) Meals.

2. Where is the dead kitten buried in 'The Kitten'?
(a) A graveyard.
(b) A flower bed.
(c) A garden.
(d) A field.

3. What does the narrator of 'Clapp's Pond' say vanishes sometimes at Clapp's Pond?
(a) Distance.
(b) The past.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Worldly needs.

4. What charts the health of the patients at the hospital?
(a) Machines.
(b) Nurses.
(c) All of these.
(d) Doctors.

5. How many people does the narrator walk through the whorehouse with in 'An Old Whorehouse'?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What season can John Chapman still be sensed in 'John Chapman'?

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

3. What makes John Chapman a legend in 'John Chapman'?

4. What made people think Lydia was taken by Indians in 'The Lost Children'?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was John Chapman?

8. Where does personification fit in 'Lightning'?

9. What is 'Ghosts' really about?

10. What sound does the narrator describe at the beginning of 'Postcard from Flamingo'?

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