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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 do the frogs shout in 'Blossom'?
(a) Their desires.
(b) Their standards.
(c) Their poems.
(d) Their needs.

2. What provides spiritual honey to the narrator of 'May'?
(a) The hum of the bees.
(b) The blossoms.
(c) The rain.
(d) The coming spring.

3. What does the narrator of 'Bluefish' think the earth does before it becomes Heaven?
(a) Floats.
(b) Melts.
(c) Mists.
(d) Tumbles.

4. Where are the packed leaves pushed in 'Spring'?
(a) A ditch.
(b) Bags.
(c) Tunnels.
(d) The river bed.

5. Which of these words does the narrator use to describe the rain in 'Spring'?
(a) Pale.
(b) Soft.
(c) All of these.
(d) Clean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator of 'Music' later hear the music again?

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

3. What does the narrator of 'Blossom' say death is a state of?

4. Which of these does the narrator of 'The Snakes' compare the snakes to?

5. What storms in 'May'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the sixth part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Tecumseh mean?

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