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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What surprised the snowdrop flower at the end of "Snowdrops"?
(a) That the snow came early.
(b) That is died.
(c) That it bloomed again.
(d) That the winter was so cold.

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

5. The speaker in "Matins" (#4) said that s/he asked God to be what?
(a) Forgiving.
(b) Human.
(c) Loving.
(d) Punishing.

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

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

8. What is one of the things God says He gifted to humanity in "Retreating Wind"?
(a) Wind.
(b) The sun.
(c) A conscience.
(d) More time than they knew how to use.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who is the speaker in "Clear Morning"?
(a) God.
(b) The sun.
(c) The poet.
(d) The morning dew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman in "The Garden" do as a sign of truce when the couple disagree about whether to stop or continue?

2. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?

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

4. What time of day does the poem "End of Winter" describe at the beginning?

5. What does God feel people have failed to do despite his effort in "Clear Morning'?

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