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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 his audience treasures?
(a) The earth.
(b) God.
(c) Material objects.
(d) Their own voice.

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

3. What does God say He has two of in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Two types of love.
(b) Two faces.
(c) Two forms.
(d) Two selves and two kinds of power.

4. What time of year is it in "Matins" (#5)?
(a) Beginning of spring.
(b) Late fall.
(c) End of summer.
(d) Early winter.

5. What has the young couple in "The Garden" not yet encountered according to the speaker?
(a) Doubt of God's existence.
(b) Proof of God's existence.
(c) A successful vegetable garden.
(d) Life's great difficulties.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#1) say she does more intensely than others?

3. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) feel happens to her over and over at the start of the poem?

4. What is referred to as "a living thing" at the end of "Love in Moonlight"?

5. Why does the speaker say humans suffer at the end of "Early Darkness"?

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