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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words does the poet specifically use when he uses this literary device?
(a) The light-hearted actions of the firefly is an allegory of spring.
(b) The firefly dances like the dancers in Degas' paintings.
(c) Glimmering, gleaming, glowing.
(d) The firefly lights up the entire night sky.

2. How is the letter F important in "Fireflies?"
(a) Only the important words begin with the letter F.
(b) Many words beginning with the letter F are used to describe the flight and light of the firefly through the night sky.
(c) It is the letter used for the first word of every line.
(d) Almost every word begins with the letter F.

3. What is some of the vocabulary used by the poet to describe the grasshoppers?
(a) Hurdlers, racers, gymnasts, slow-moving.
(b) Sliders, runners, sprinters. spinners.
(c) Acrobats, circlers, twirlers, flippers.
(d) Bounders, leapers, springers, soarers, bounders, leapers, springers, soarers.

4. How are people like the mayfly?
(a) Most people lazily drift through life.
(b) Most people do not think about others as they speed through life.
(c) Most people do not think about the consequences of their actions.
(d) Most people rush through life, frantically trying to fit in as much as possible.

5. What does the water strider feel when its students cannot perform its special skill?
(a) Superiority.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mayfly desire?

2. This speaking imitates ___________.

3. Only when does the mayfly seem to feel nostalgia?

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

5. How does the poet specifically use this literary device?

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