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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the speaker in the poem "Wild Iris"?
(a) The poet.
(b) God.
(c) The iris.
(d) The poet's husband.

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

6. Who is the speaker of "Matins" (#3)?
(a) Poet.
(b) Sun.
(c) Flower.
(d) God.

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

8. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he may be better for addressing instead of God?
(a) The flowers.
(b) The birches.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The birds.

9. The poet in "Matins" (#1) refers to a conversation she had with whom?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) He husband.
(d) Her son.

10. The poet in "Matins" (#1) disagrees with Noah, saying that she feels attached to what?
(a) The summer breeze.
(b) The living tree.
(c) The birdsong.
(d) The wild iris.

11. What does God say He let people do because it is what they wanted in "End of Winter"?
(a) He let them speak.
(b) He let them be born.
(c) He let them garden.
(d) He gave them free will.

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

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

14. The poet in "Matins" (#3) feels she has seen no proof of what?
(a) Her husband's love.
(b) God's existence.
(c) The tree dying.
(d) Her garden will be successful.

15. What does the speaker of "Scilla" call his audience?
(a) Master.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Fool.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?

3. Where does the speaker of "Retreating Wind" tell his audience they will not find what they are looking for?

4. What flowers "burst" up as a sign of spring in "The Garden"?

5. Who is the speaker in "Snowdrops"?

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