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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What sound does the speaker in "Wild Iris" hear "darting in low shrubs" (1)?
(a) Footsteps.
(b) Worms.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Birds.

4. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?
(a) Planting tomato plants.
(b) Planting a row of peas.
(c) Planting irises.
(d) Weeding the garden.

5. What does God tell humanity they can do in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Stop calling to Him.
(b) Forget about immortality.
(c) Close their eyes.
(d) Stop believing in Him.

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

7. The speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?
(a) Dependent on other humans.
(b) Fragile.
(c) Dependent on the sun.
(d) Circular.

8. Who is the speaker in "The Hawthorn Tree"?
(a) A young woman.
(b) The hawthorn tree.
(c) God.
(d) A young man.

9. What does the speaker of "Scilla" say his audience treasures?
(a) Their own voice.
(b) Material objects.
(c) The earth.
(d) God.

10. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?
(a) Joy.
(b) God's love.
(c) God's anger.
(d) Grief.

11. What does God tell humanity they will no hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?
(a) Their own voice.
(b) God's voice.
(c) The wind.
(d) Rainfall.

12. What does the speaker of "Scilla" say humans are always planning?
(a) For immortality.
(b) To meet God.
(c) Their death.
(d) Their silly lives.

13. What was the couple given which compels the speaker in "April" to say he expected better of them?
(a) Minds.
(b) Bodies.
(c) The earth.
(d) Souls.

14. 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 quietly continues.
(b) She shakes the man's hand.
(c) She touches the man's cheek.
(d) She nods her head.

15. Where does the trillium flower describe waking in "Trillilum"?
(a) A moss-covered rock.
(b) A bright garden.
(c) A blue meadow.
(d) A dark forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker in "Matins" (#4) said that s/he asked God to be what?

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

3. The poet in "Matins" (#3) feels she has seen no proof of what?

4. What surprised the snowdrop flower at the end of "Snowdrops"?

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

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