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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. What aspects of humanity can be learned from the book lice poem?
(a) How love affects lice.
(b) How compromise is needed in relationships.
(c) Why book lice eat books.
(d) How to meet others.

2. The mayfly's birth and death take place when?
(a) In different places.
(b) At the beginning and end of one week.
(c) In the same day.
(d) One year apart.

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

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

5. Who reads which part of this book?
(a) Each person takes turns reading a line.
(b) Each person takes turns reading a paragraph.
(c) One person reads the lines on the left, while the other person reads the lines on the right.
(d) One person reads the odd chapters, while the other person reads the even ones.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "The Moth's Serenade" tells of what?

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

5. What do the water striders call those they attempt to teach to walk on water?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a mayfly feel at the end of its life? Why?

2. What mood is created by the behavior of the water striders? Why?

3. How are other animals like humans? What human qualities do other animals have?

4. What is the purpose of "Book Lice?"

5. How is the structure of the poem "Grasshoppers" reminiscent of the movement of the grasshoppers?

6. What is the mood of the book lice poem? Why?

7. What literary devices does the poet use to express the moth's feelings?

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

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

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

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