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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he should be buried with at the end of the poem?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The Romantics.
(c) The dying flowers.
(d) The tomato plant.

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

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

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

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

6. What time of day does the poem "End of Winter" describe at the beginning?
(a) Twilight.
(b) Late evening.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) Early morning.

7. What does God say he "cannot go on restricting [himself] to" (8) in "Clear Morning"?
(a) His anger.
(b) Signs.
(c) Time.
(d) Images.

8. 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.

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

10. What signs of their mood have the couple left on the dirt path in "The Hawthorn Tree"?
(a) Scattered flowers.
(b) Their shoes.
(c) An empty basket.
(d) An echo of laughter.

11. What does the witchgrass say the garden bed is a paradigm of in "Witchgrass"?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Life.
(c) Failure.
(d) Success.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?

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

4. What tree does the poet in "Matins" (#3) ask if God is like?

5. How does the speaker say s/he is not supposed to address God?

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