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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 12 - 23 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the poetry collection The Wild Iris?
(a) Iris Gluck.
(b) Lilly Gillick.
(c) John Gluck.
(d) Louise Gluck.

2. Who is the speaker in "Retreating Wind"?
(a) The ocean.
(b) God.
(c) The poet.
(d) The wind.

3. Under what great tree does the lamium live in "Lamium"?
(a) Maple.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Pine.
(d) Hawthorn.

4. What does the woman in "The Garden" do as a sign of truce when the couple disagree about whether to stop or continue?
(a) She shakes the man's hand.
(b) She touches the man's cheek.
(c) She quietly continues.
(d) She nods her head.

5. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he should be buried with at the end of the poem?
(a) The dying flowers.
(b) The Romantics.
(c) The tomato plant.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?

2. What does the speaker in "The Garden" find it unbearable to look at?

3. What does God say has never gotten in the way of human pleasure in "End of Winter"?

4. To whom is the speaker of "Wild Iris" speaking?

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

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