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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. How does the narrator describe the movement of the creature described in the second part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) Gentle zigs.
(b) Quick gallops.
(c) Small breaths.
(d) Smooth dancing.

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

3. What do the trees in the 'Blackwater Woods' give off?
(a) Food.
(b) A fragrance.
(c) Shelter.
(d) A protection.

4. In 'Fish', where is the fish when he dies?
(a) The river.
(b) A boat.
(c) A pail.
(d) A mud flat.

5. In 'Blackwater Woods', what is on the other side of the black river of loss?
(a) Joy.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Humility.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

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

3. What does the narrator of 'The Honey Tree' compare herself to as she climb's the honey tree?

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

5. In 'Fish', what does the fish refuse to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator of 'Morning at Great Pond' say the coming morning renews in her at the Great Pond?

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

5. What does Tecumseh mean?

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

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

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

9. What do the lovers in 'Something' hear?

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

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