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

2. How are people like the digger wasp?
(a) People never live to see their offspring.
(b) People have wings.
(c) People also make sacrifices for each other.
(d) People are insects.

3. This is the first poem to focus on what?
(a) The life of these insects.
(b) The mortality of these insects.
(c) The habitats of these insects.
(d) The personalities of these insects.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the digger wasp hope to do for its offspring?

2. How does the worker bee spend his days?

3. "The Digger Wasp" is told from whose perspective?

4. How are the lives of the two types of bees similar?

5. The poet names _________________ insect species.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the poet use poetry to give the reader a sense of what cicadas sound like?

2. What is the mood of "The Digger Wasp?" Why?

3. What is "Requiem?"

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

5. Why are these insects compared to rowers?

6. What is the mood of "Cicadas?" Why?

7. What is the purpose of "Cicadas?"

8. From whose perspective is "Honeybees?" Why?

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

10. Describe the whirligig beetle, based on this poem.

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