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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 does the digger wasp hope its children will do?
(a) Live long, happy lives.
(b) Know how to take care of itself.
(c) Realize the sacrifices the parent made for its children.
(d) Enjoy the food and shelter.

2. This poem can be described how?
(a) As sad.
(b) As musical.
(c) As melancholy.
(d) As annoying.

3. What tool is used by the poet to express the beetles' qualities?
(a) The overlapping of the two speakers' parts.
(b) The repetition of words in the poem.
(c) The unison sections of the two speakers' parts.
(d) The simple language found in this poem.

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

5. What happens when the water boatmen reach their destination?
(a) They are allowed to rest.
(b) They turn around and head back to where they came from.
(c) They die.
(d) They start families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another mood that can be felt while reading "The Digger Wasp"?

2. How are people like the water boatmen?

3. How does the worker bee spend his days?

4. What are the cicadas celebrating?

5. From where are the cicadas coming?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are cicadas like a choir?

3. Compare the different types of honeybees.

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

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

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

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

8. How can the world of the honeybee be compared to your own world?

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

10. How is the artwork important, specifically to the whirligig beetle poem? Why?

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