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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This speaking imitates ___________.
(a) The movements of the old grasshoppers.
(b) The movements of the grasshoppers.
(c) The movements of one grasshopper.
(d) The movements of the young grasshoppers.

2. "Fireflies" tells of the _________ of a firefly.
(a) Life.
(b) Light.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Food.

3. What does the mayfly desire?
(a) More food.
(b) A longer life.
(c) More friends.
(d) A shorter life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the grasshoppers hop?

3. Whom do the water striders try to teach to walk on water?

4. How does the poet accurately describe the behavior of a moth in this poem?

5. "Grasshoppers" is written so that the readers do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. If you only had twenty-four hours to live, what would you do? Why?

2. If you were to write a poem, what would it be about? Why?

3. How are these lice like people?

4. How are mayflies and fireflies similar?

5. How does a mayfly's life compare to our own?

6. To what does the poet compare fireflies? Is this a good comparison? Why or why not?

7. What does the poem "Book Lice" do for English literature?

8. What feelings are evoked by the grasshoppers? Why?

9. How are these book lice opposites? How do they get past this?

10. Why might the poet write a book about insects? Why did he choose to write about insects using poetry?

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