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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 'Music' make music with?
(a) Some reeds.
(b) A flute.
(c) A drum.
(d) Her voice.

2. How does the sea move, as described in the poem 'The Sea'?
(a) Stroke by stroke.
(b) Wave by wave.
(c) Wind by wind.
(d) Splash by splash.

3. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the muskrat's house to?
(a) A castle.
(b) A cave.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A tent.

4. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) The clouds.
(b) A man.
(c) Books.
(d) The water.

5. What is the narrator doing in 'White Night'?
(a) Floating.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Writing.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the listener drown in in 'Music'?

2. What holds the Bluefish quietly?

3. What does the narrator not want to do in 'White Night'?

4. What does the narrator drop into the grass in 'The Meeting'?

5. What does the narrator of 'The Sea' call the sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator of 'The Plum Trees' say happiness must be tempted?

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

3. What is said to have happened to Tecumseh's body?

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator of 'The Roses' say there is no end to?

8. What sad event happens in the second part of 'Something'?

9. What does the narrator in 'Something' learn the worth of after her lover dies?

10. What are the snakes compared to in 'Snakes'?

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