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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 24 - 33 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Spring Snow"?
(a) God.
(b) The snowfall.
(c) The poet.
(d) The wind.

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

3. What does God say has never gotten in the way of human pleasure in "End of Winter"?
(a) The seasons.
(b) Human grief.
(c) The winter.
(d) God's grief.

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

5. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#5)?
(a) God.
(b) The gardener.
(c) A weed.
(d) The flower bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Witchgrass"?

2. What does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" say he feels for his audience in the first lines?

3. Who or what does the speaker in "Heaven and Earth" observe as wanting it all as s/he stands on the horizon?

4. What does the hawthorn tree in "The Hawthorn Tree" believe to be the reason for what the couple left behind?

5. To whom is the speaker addressing in "Matins" (#3)?

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