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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What eartly image is referenced multiple times in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The stars.
(d) The night sky.

3. Who is the speaker in "Snowdrops"?
(a) A snowflake.
(b) The poet.
(c) God.
(d) A snowdrop flower.

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

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

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

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

8. The poet in "Matins" (#2) says humanity "took turns working the garden" (3) and never thought of who or what?
(a) The changing seasons.
(b) One another.
(c) God.
(d) Their mortality.

9. What flower with "deep blue" (20) marks is referenced at the end of "April"?
(a) Scilla.
(b) Iris.
(c) Cornflower.
(d) Violet.

10. What was the couple given which compels the speaker in "April" to say he expected better of them?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Minds.
(c) The earth.
(d) Souls.

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

12. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?
(a) Joy.
(b) God's anger.
(c) Grief.
(d) God's love.

13. What words does the speaker on "Retreating Wind" repeat in regards to human life?
(a) It is in God's hands.
(b) It is fragile.
(c) It is circular.
(d) It begins and end.

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

15. The poet in "Matins" (#3) ask God if what may be his goal?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God say has never gotten in the way of human pleasure in "End of Winter"?

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

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

4. What does God say he "cannot go on restricting [himself] to" (8) in "Clear Morning"?

5. What flower with white marks is referenced at the end of "April"?

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