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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. The water strider's ability to walk on water hints at what?
(a) The lack of talent other insects have.
(b) Jesus Christ's ability to change water into wine.
(c) Jesus Christ's ability to walk on water.
(d) The strange abilities of some insects.

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

3. "Mayflies" ________________ tells of the brief life of the mayfly.
(a) Dramatically.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Matter-of-factly.

4. How does the poet help the reader relate to fireflies?
(a) He compares the fireflies to artists.
(b) He compares the fireflies to dancers.
(c) He compare the fireflies to athletes.
(d) He compares the fireflies to musicians.

5. How is personification used in "Book Lice?"
(a) These two lice are given human names.
(b) These two lice go to school.
(c) These two lice are given human emotions.
(d) These two lice wear clothes and go to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. To emphasize the powerful and image-provoking verbs used by the poet, he has used what literary device?

2. Each poem is about a ___________ of insects.

3. What do the two lice spend this poem doing?

4. How did other types of insects react to the water strider's abilities?

5. Joyful Noise is a book of ____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are these lice like people?

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

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

5. How does the mayfly's perception of time compare to our own?

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

7. How does the poet use words to make the movement of the firefly more exciting and vivid? Do you think this is effective? Why or why not?

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

9. Why are mayflies so frantic, according to this poem?

10. How can a person relate to this moth?

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