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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 kills the fish in the poem, 'Fish'?
(a) A boat.
(b) Another fish.
(c) The hook.
(d) The air.

2. What swarms around the animal in 'Happiness'?
(a) Damselflies.
(b) Bees.
(c) Fog.
(d) Mosquitoes.

3. Why does the narrator say humpbacks sing?
(a) For reasons man cannot understand.
(b) To show their inner-beauty.
(c) To communicate their desires.
(d) All of these.

4. What makes the narrator of 'Fish' and the fish one?
(a) When it bites her.
(b) When she releases it to the ocean.
(c) When she watches it die.
(d) When she eats it.

5. What does the narrator feel inside her at the end of 'Fish'?
(a) Guilt.
(b) The sea.
(c) Blood.
(d) The fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has a captain in 'Humpbacks' seen a whale playing with?

2. What flows through the branches of the plum trees?

3. What does the narrator of 'White Night' compare the coming morning to?

4. What does the narrator of 'Music' make music with?

5. What does the narrator of 'Bluefish' compare the Bluefish to as they eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator of 'Honey at the Table' say the taste of honey is composed of?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does honey fill a person with according to the narrator of 'Honey at the Table'?

9. What does the narrator of 'Crossing the Swamp' find in the swamp?

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

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