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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mayflies and Fireflies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The mayfly's birth and death take place when?
(a) In different places.
(b) One year apart.
(c) At the beginning and end of one week.
(d) In the same day.

2. How do the mayflies see their youth?
(a) As only yesterday.
(b) As an anxious period of time.
(c) They think nothing of their youth.
(d) As so very long ago.

3. To what else does the poet also compare the firefly?
(a) Painting and brush strokes.
(b) Acting, shouting, ordering others around.
(c) Singing, vocalizing, and warbling.
(d) Zipping, zooming, and zany behavior.

4. This book is made to be read by ___________ people simultaneously.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. The water strider's ability to walk on water hints at what?
(a) Jesus Christ's ability to change water into wine.
(b) Jesus Christ's ability to walk on water.
(c) The lack of talent other insects have.
(d) The strange abilities of some insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of the literary device that is the answer to number 42?

2. "Mayflies" describes the _________ life of the mayfly

3. Who reads which part of this book?

4. What does the water strider feel when its students cannot perform its special skill?

5. Why might these insects want to teach others to walk on water?

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