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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which bee believes life is relaxing and enjoyable?
(a) The queen bee.
(b) The bumble bee.
(c) The worker bee.
(d) The sweat bee.

2. What does the digger wasp hope its children will do?
(a) Realize the sacrifices the parent made for its children.
(b) Live long, happy lives.
(c) Enjoy the food and shelter.
(d) Know how to take care of itself.

3. With what are the pages of the whirligig beetle's poem covered?
(a) Strong verbs describing these beetles.
(b) Vocabulary describing this beetle.
(c) The word whirligig.
(d) Drawings of these swerving, spinning beetles.

4. The sound of cicadas singing begins how?
(a) With two creatures.
(b) With a male cicada.
(c) With a chorus of cicadas.
(d) With a single creature.

5. Which bee believes life is hard and unenjoyable?
(a) The sweat bee.
(b) The worker bee.
(c) The queen bee.
(d) The bumble bee.

6. The two parts of the poem frequently do what?
(a) Overlap.
(b) Tell jokes.
(c) Repeat.
(d) Argue.

7. What else is reflected by what covers the pages of the poem?
(a) The confusion and frustration that must be caused by this many beetles.
(b) The way the beetles must have to hunt to find food.
(c) The chaos this movement must create among this throng of beetles.
(d) The way life must be in this habitat.

8. What does the digger wasp hope to do for its offspring?
(a) Make life easier.
(b) Make them jealous of it.
(c) Make them happy.
(d) Make life more exciting.

9. According to these beetles, this ____________ way of moving is the best way to move.
(a) Fast.
(b) Straightforward.
(c) Round about and indirect.
(d) Slow.

10. How can the lives of the two different bees in this poem be described?
(a) As very similar.
(b) As very different.
(c) As exciting.
(d) As identical.

11. This sense reflects the movements of the whirligig beetle where?
(a) In the water.
(b) In the sand.
(c) In the trees.
(d) In the air.

12. How are the lives of the two types of bees similar?
(a) They play their part in keeping the hive thriving.
(b) They lay eggs.
(c) They protect the hive.
(d) They make honey.

13. Where are the water boatmen headed?
(a) To the opposite shore.
(b) To the bottom of the pond.
(c) To the coral reef.
(d) To the ocean.

14. The digger wasp wants its children to know that they were ____________.
(a) Considered.
(b) Prayed for.
(c) Loved.
(d) Envied.

15. What tool is used by the poet to express the beetles' qualities?
(a) The simple language found in this poem.
(b) The overlapping of the two speakers' parts.
(c) The unison sections of the two speakers' parts.
(d) The repetition of words in the poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the water boatmen and the digger wasp have in common?

2. The poet creates what between the two readers in "Cicadas?"

3. The first thing that one notices when turning the page to the poem about whirligigs is what?

4. "Water Boatmen" describes the ________________ of this insect.

5. What is another mood of "Honeybees"?

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