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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Lice and The Moth's Serenade.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the water strider's special skill?
(a) It can dive into deep water.
(b) It can glow in the dark.
(c) It can fly.
(d) It can walk on water.

2. How do the mayflies view their lives?
(a) As a relatively long time.
(b) As a relatively short time.
(c) As entirely too long.
(d) As a waste of time.

3. What do the water striders call those they attempt to teach to walk on water?
(a) Their proteges.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their enemies.
(d) Their students.

4. To emphasize the powerful and image-provoking verbs used by the poet, he has used what literary device?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Allusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does the poet specifically use when he uses this literary device?

2. What does the moth do throughout the entirety of this poem?

3. What do the two lice spend this poem doing?

4. How do the letters that are the answer to number 54 have emphasis placed on them?

5. What is the mood of "The Moth's Serenade?"

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