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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Whirligig Beetles and Requiem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the speakers say this, in regards to the answer to number 14?
(a) Very slowly at the same time.
(b) One right after the other.
(c) At the same time.
(d) Only one at a time with space in between.

2. What do the two lice spend this poem doing?
(a) Trying to climb to a higher shelf.
(b) Eating glue from the book bindings.
(c) Arguing with each other.
(d) Describing their lives on various book shelves and their life as a couple.

3. Are the water striders able to successfully teach others to walk on water?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) No.

4. Upon contemplating this poem and the deaths of these insects, one becomes more aware of what?
(a) The power of nature.
(b) The number of insect species.
(c) The importance of insects.
(d) The power of insects.

5. What else is reflected by what covers the pages of the poem?
(a) The chaos this movement must create among this throng of beetles.
(b) The way the beetles must have to hunt to find food.
(c) The confusion and frustration that must be caused by this many beetles.
(d) The way life must be in this habitat.

Short Answer Questions

1. The descriptive words and the use of ____________________ reflects the moths' intense feelings.

2. How do the mayflies spend their time?

3. This group of people slaved away for the small _____________ population who controlled the country.

4. According to this poem, why is the moth drawn to the light?

5. "Mayflies" ________________ tells of the brief life of the mayfly.

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