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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the wind has in 'Web'?

2. In 'The Lost Children', what was near the footprints found of Lydia's?

3. What does the narrator say happens to the woods in the winter in 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

4. What did someone tell the narrator in the second part of 'A Poem for the Blue Heron'?

5. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the first snow do to familiar things in the poem 'First Snow'?

2. In 'The Kitten', what does the narrator feel as she buries the kitten, and why?

3. Who was John Chapman?

4. What does the narrator see before leaving the hospital in 'University Hospital, Boston'?

5. What does the narrator of 'August' accept during the poem?

6. In 'First Snow', what is brought about by the first snow?

7. What sound does the narrator describe at the beginning of 'Postcard from Flamingo'?

8. What question is asked at the beginning of 'Ghosts'?

9. Where does personification fit in 'Lightning'?

10. What are the vultures in 'Vultures' compared to in an ironic analogy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was John Chapman, and how did he change the history and landscape of America?

Essay Topic 2

What did Oliver state about happiness in 'The Plum Trees', and how were these ideas substantiated?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect the tone of the poems that had this as a central theme?

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