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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like the mayfly, people often have feelings of nostalgia towards what?
(a) Their youth.
(b) People do not feel nostalgic.
(c) Their families.
(d) Their friends.

2. Only when does the mayfly seem to feel nostalgia?
(a) At the end of the poem.
(b) It never feels nostalgia.
(c) At the beginning of the poem.
(d) In the middle of the poem.

3. After the results of the water strider's attempts to teach others to walk on water, why might the water striders want to continue "teaching" others to walk on water?
(a) They have nothing better to do.
(b) They think it is funny to see others fall in the water.
(c) They want to make others fall in the water.
(d) They do not want to give up on their desire to teach others to walk on water.

4. What is the mood of "Mayflies?"
(a) Frantic.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Bored.
(d) Calm.

5. From whose perspective is "Grasshoppers?"
(a) A group of grasshoppers.
(b) Another insect.
(c) A grasshopper.
(d) The observer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How else do they spend their time?

3. Where do the grasshoppers hop?

4. This speaking imitates ___________.

5. What does the mayfly desire?

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