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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 group of people slaved away for the small _____________ population who controlled the country.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Poor.
(c) Unhealthy.
(d) Intelligent.

2. For whom is "Requiem?"
(a) Those insects who die before their young are born.
(b) Those insects who were killed by the first frost of the fall.
(c) Those insects who have short lifespans.
(d) Those insects killed by people.

3. What covers the pages of this poem reflect what?
(a) The habitat of the beetles.
(b) The way the beetles think.
(c) The ways in which the beetles move.
(d) The food the beetles eat.

4. From where are the cicadas coming?
(a) Out of the ground.
(b) Out of caves.
(c) Out of the trees.
(d) Out of cocoons.

5. How does the queen spend her days?
(a) Flying around the hive looking for a mate.
(b) Lounging around or laying eggs.
(c) Eating bonbons and watching movies.
(d) Slaving away to provide for the hive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Will the digger wasp ever see its offspring?

2. What names are used to describe the water boatmen?

3. What does the digger wasp hope its children will do?

4. This is the first poem to focus on what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How are cicadas like a choir?

2. What does "Water Boatmen" describe? Why?

3. How do "Whirligig Beetles" and "Requiem" compare?

4. How does this mood in "The Digger Wasp" change? Why?

5. Why might the digger wasp die before its young are born?

6. To what else could the water boatmen be compared? Why?

7. How could a person relate to a day in the life of the whirligig beetle?

8. What does "The Digger Wasp" describe? Why?

9. How is "Requiem" unlike any of the other poems? Why?

10. How does this poem draw attention to nature and the life cycle of insects?

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