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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet in "Matins" (#3) asks God if He may be more inconsistent like what type of plant?
(a) Foxglove.
(b) Iris.
(c) Lamium.
(d) Trillium.

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

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

4. What eartly image is referenced multiple times in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) The stars.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The night sky.

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

6. What does the hawthorn tree in "The Hawthorn Tree" believe to be the reason for what the couple left behind?
(a) Human passion or rage.
(b) Human devotion to God.
(c) Human joy.
(d) Human folly.

7. What is the meaning of the sound God says they will hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?
(a) Hello.
(b) Nevermore.
(c) Good-bye.
(d) No more.

8. In "Spring Snow," God condemns humanity for not believing in Him, despite His doing what?
(a) Believing in them.
(b) Giving them an obvious sign.
(c) Giving them everything they want.
(d) Answer their calls.

9. What does God see as an "Image of departure" (16) in "The Garden"?
(a) The woman's hand leaving the man's face.
(b) The man leaving the garden.
(c) The woman leaving the garden.
(d) The woman and the man turning from each other.

10. In "Matins" (#1), what types of people does Noah say "hate the spring" (2)?
(a) Cold-blooded.
(b) Jovial.
(c) Extroverts.
(d) Depressives.

11. Why does the witchgrass feel humans even bothered to give it a name in "Witchgrass"?
(a) To create something new.
(b) To be able to talk about it.
(c) To have one more slur.
(d) To write poems about it.

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

13. What does the speaker in "The Garden" find it unbearable to look at?
(a) A row of peas.
(b) A young couple.
(c) The light rain.
(d) The fresh dirt.

14. Who does the speaker of "Scilla" address?
(a) The dirt.
(b) God.
(c) A human audience.
(d) Another plant.

15. How does the speaker say s/he is not supposed to address God?
(a) Condescendingly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Quietly.
(d) In the personal way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?

2. Who is the speaker in "The Garden"?

3. Who is the speaker in "Retreating Wind"?

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

5. Who is the speaker in "Witchgrass"?

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