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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 34 - 46 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of "Scilla" say humans are always planning?
(a) Their death.
(b) To meet God.
(c) For immortality.
(d) Their silly lives.

2. Who or what is the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?
(a) The poet's husband.
(b) The poet.
(c) The horizon.
(d) God.

3. Who is the speaker in "Field Flowers"?
(a) A field of flowers.
(b) A human.
(c) The grass.
(d) God.

4. What adjective does the person in "Vespers" (#1) use to describe the peach which grows only in warm climates?
(a) Fragile.
(b) Unimaginable.
(c) Bountiful.
(d) Juicy.

5. What does the witchgrass say it will someday do at the end of "Witchgrass"?
(a) Take over the earth.
(b) Come back to haunt the gardener.
(c) Die out completely.
(d) Constitute the field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker tell the couple they have no place in thinking such things in "April"?

2. Who is God speaking to in "Harvest"?

3. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) address?

4. What does the poet in "Matins" (#3) say about God's silence?

5. How does the witchgrass feel the gardener feels about it in "Witchgrass"?

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