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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 of "Matins" (#3)?
(a) Flower.
(b) God.
(c) Poet.
(d) Sun.

2. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?
(a) The rains.
(b) Nightfall.
(c) Death.
(d) Summer.

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

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

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

6. The poet in "Matins" (#3) asks God's forgiveness for doing what?
(a) Not believing in Him.
(b) Loving Him.
(c) Sinning.
(d) Not being able to see Him.

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

8. What mistake does Noah say depressives make in "Matins" (#1)?
(a) They dwell on their sadness.
(b) They cannot see the sunlight in the darkness.
(c) They attach themselves to one part of nature, rather than the whole.
(d) They spend too much time in doors.

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

10. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) address?
(a) The sky.
(b) The birch tree.
(c) God.
(d) The poet.

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

12. Who is the speaker in "The Garden"?
(a) A row of peas.
(b) God.
(c) The poet.
(d) A young couple.

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

14. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#4)?
(a) The poet.
(b) The birch tree.
(c) God.
(d) The poet's husband.

15. 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 gave them free will.
(c) He let them garden.
(d) He let them be born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What signs of their mood have the couple left on the dirt path in "The Hawthorn Tree"?

2. Who is the speaker in "April"?

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

4. Who is the author of the poetry collection The Wild Iris?

5. How is the moonlight described in "Love in Moonlight"?

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