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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" say he feels for his audience in the first lines?
(a) Shame.
(b) Love.
(c) Pity.
(d) Disgust.

2. Who is the speaker in "April"?
(a) A gardener.
(b) A young woman.
(c) God.
(d) The april rain.

3. To whom does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) speak?
(a) The garden.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her son.
(d) God.

4. Who is the speaker in "End of Winter"?
(a) A bird.
(b) The poet.
(c) God.
(d) The poet's son.

5. What flower with white marks is referenced at the end of "April"?
(a) Wild Rose.
(b) Scilla.
(c) Violet.
(d) Iris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?

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

3. Who is the speaker in "The Hawthorn Tree"?

4. What does God say "glitters like the moon" (9) in "Spring Snow"?

5. What time of day does the poem "End of Winter" describe at the beginning?

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