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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what else does the poet also compare the firefly?
(a) Painting and brush strokes.
(b) Zipping, zooming, and zany behavior.
(c) Acting, shouting, ordering others around.
(d) Singing, vocalizing, and warbling.

2. In this poem, the viewer is ________________ the grasshoppers.
(a) One of.
(b) Ignoring.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Observing the actions of.

3. 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.

4. According to this poem, what else do the moth and the book lice have in common?
(a) They are carnivores.
(b) They live in people's homes.
(c) They interact with man-made environments.
(d) They are attracted to light.

5. How do the book lice meet?
(a) They are introduced to each other by their parents.
(b) They are roommates.
(c) Accidentally.
(d) They met online.

6. "Book Lice" describes what?
(a) The hobbies of two book lice.
(b) The life and love of two book lice.
(c) The personalities of book lice.
(d) The movements of book lice.

7. What does this poem about book lice introduce to the reader?
(a) The names of famous authors.
(b) The different glues used to bind books.
(c) The different types of book binding techniques.
(d) The names of famous book lice.

8. What kind of poem is "Moth's Serenade?"
(a) An educational poem.
(b) A Haiku.
(c) A factual poem.
(d) A love poem.

9. "Water Striders" asks whether this insect's ability to walk on water is what?
(a) Fun.
(b) Useful.
(c) A miracle.
(d) Dangerous.

10. What does the moth do throughout the entirety of this poem?
(a) It asks other insects questions.
(b) It complains about the porch light.
(c) It serenades the porch light.
(d) It eats peanut butter.

11. 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 do not want to give up on their desire to teach others to walk on water.
(b) They want to make others fall in the water.
(c) They think it is funny to see others fall in the water.
(d) They have nothing better to do.

12. How do the letters that are the answer to number 54 have emphasis placed on them?
(a) By using them repeatedly.
(b) By only using words that begin with these letters.
(c) By using them at the beginning of most of the lines.
(d) By putting them in bold print.

13. How do the mayflies see their youth?
(a) As only yesterday.
(b) As an anxious period of time.
(c) They think nothing of their youth.
(d) As so very long ago.

14. This poem is also filled with ___________.
(a) Humor.
(b) Annoyance.
(c) Anger.
(d) Danger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are people like the mayfly?

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

3. What are the homes of the lice?

4. This speaking imitates ___________.

5. What is some of the vocabulary used by the poet to describe the grasshoppers?

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