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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the witchgrass feel the gardener feels about it in "Witchgrass"?
(a) It feels loved by the gardener.
(b) It feels hated by the gardener.
(c) It feels ignored by the gardener.
(d) It feels the garden is ambivalent about its presence.

2. What tree does the poet in "Matins" (#3) ask if God is like?
(a) Birch.
(b) Ash.
(c) Pine.
(d) Hawthorn.

3. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) A soul.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) A lover's heart.
(d) Hell.

4. What words does the speaker on "Retreating Wind" repeat in regards to human life?
(a) It is fragile.
(b) It is in God's hands.
(c) It is circular.
(d) It begins and end.

5. What does God say people truly want in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Not belief, but capitulation to authority.
(b) An obvious sign.
(c) Immortality.
(d) God to come to them in human form.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God tell humanity they will no hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?

2. The poet in "Matins" (#3) asks God if He may be more inconsistent like what type of plant?

3. What does the witchgrass say it will someday do at the end of "Witchgrass"?

4. What is one of the things God says He gifted to humanity in "Retreating Wind"?

5. Who is the speaker in "Clear Morning"?

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