The Wild Iris Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Wild Iris Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 "The Hawthorn Tree"?
(a) The hawthorn tree.
(b) God.
(c) A young woman.
(d) A young man.

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

3. How does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" describe human souls?
(a) Small talking things.
(b) Vast, passionate things.
(c) Immortal.
(d) Empty.

4. Where does the speaker of "Retreating Wind" tell his audience they will not find what they are looking for?
(a) In heaven.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In God's love.
(d) In prayer.

5. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) A lover's heart.
(b) God's wrath.
(c) A soul.
(d) Hell.

6. What does the witchgrass say it will someday do at the end of "Witchgrass"?
(a) Take over the earth.
(b) Constitute the field.
(c) Come back to haunt the gardener.
(d) Die out completely.

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

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

9. What did humanity want that they did not receive from God?
(a) To see heaven.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Endless youth.
(d) To see God in human form.

10. What does God say humans were too eager for in "End of Winter"?
(a) God's love.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Immortality.

11. To whom is the speaker of "Wild Iris" speaking?
(a) The iris.
(b) Death.
(c) The gardener.
(d) God.

12. What does the poet say followed humanities exile from heaven in "Matins" (#2)?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Years of darkness.
(d) Evil.

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

14. What sound is described at the beginning of "End of Winter"?
(a) The last snowfall.
(b) The wind.
(c) A birdcall.
(d) The falling leaves.

15. What does the trillium flower in "Trillium" think some people need?
(a) Changing seasons.
(b) Death's presence.
(c) A sign from God.
(d) Immortality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the couple given which compels the speaker in "April" to say he expected better of them?

2. What is referred to as "a living thing" at the end of "Love in Moonlight"?

3. What does God say people truly want in "Spring Snow"?

4. What does the hawthorn tree in "The Hawthorn Tree" believe to be the reason for what the couple left behind?

5. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) address?

(see the answer keys)

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