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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 touches the head of the muskrat in 'White Night'?
(a) The river.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The moon.
(d) The wind.

2. What becomes nameless in the 'Blackwater Woods'?
(a) The rivers.
(b) The ponds.
(c) The travellers.
(d) The trees.

3. What are seen drinking at the Great Pond?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Deer.
(c) All of these.
(d) Herons.

4. What does the narrator of 'Blackwater Woods' say a man must love?
(a) Himself.
(b) Mortality.
(c) God.
(d) Others.

5. What do the trees in the 'Blackwater Woods' turn themselves into?
(a) Pillars of light.
(b) Castle towers.
(c) Guardians.
(d) Santuaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rubs its hands all over the narrator in 'Spring'?

2. In 'The Honey Tree', what is found in the honey tree?

3. What season does 'Music' take place in?

4. Why must bodies be held back in 'Humpbacks'?

5. What kills the fish in the poem, 'Fish'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three things does the narrator of 'In Blackwater Woods' say all men must do?

2. What do the lovers in 'Something' do?

3. What is the first big question asked of the reader in 'Tecumseh'?

4. What happens in the fifth part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

5. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' compare the blooming of the roses to?

6. What does the narrator say mankind is nourished by in 'The Fish'?

7. What is the narrator's head full of in 'Blackberries'?

8. What do the fish do in the secret pools in 'Climbing the Chagrin River'?

9. How does the narrator say a person would know Tecumseh if they saw him?

10. What does the narrator of 'Tecumseh' say is worse than risking death?

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