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

2. Each poem is about a ___________ of insects.
(a) Family.
(b) Group.
(c) Flock.
(d) Species.

3. How do the mayflies spend their time?
(a) Eating.
(b) Lazily flying about.
(c) Frantically flying about.
(d) Sleeping.

4. Why do these two book lice compromise?
(a) They have to share a shelf.
(b) They are in love.
(c) They like to compromise.
(d) They have to share a book.

5. What factual information does "Book Lice" give about lice?
(a) Information regarding their birth and life in the bindings of books.
(b) information about how they meet other lice.
(c) Information about how they compromise for the sake of their love.
(d) Information regarding their favorite books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the water strider's special skill?

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

3. What does this poem about book lice introduce to the reader?

4. "Water Striders" describes the _________ action of this insect.

5. What does the mayfly desire?

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