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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does God feel people have failed to do despite his effort in "Clear Morning'?
(a) Accept Him.
(b) Succeed.
(c) Behave.
(d) Repent.

2. What does God see as an "Image of departure" (16) in "The Garden"?
(a) The woman's hand leaving the man's face.
(b) The man leaving the garden.
(c) The woman leaving the garden.
(d) The woman and the man turning from each other.

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

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

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

6. What does the lamium say "living things don't all require...in the same degree" (5)?
(a) Activity.
(b) Light.
(c) God.
(d) Food.

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

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

9. Who is the speaker in "Spring Snow"?
(a) The snowfall.
(b) God.
(c) The wind.
(d) The poet.

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

11. What does God say He let people do because it is what they wanted in "End of Winter"?
(a) He let them garden.
(b) He gave them free will.
(c) He let them be born.
(d) He let them speak.

12. Who is the speaker in "End of Winter"?
(a) The poet.
(b) The poet's son.
(c) God.
(d) A bird.

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

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

15. How is the moonlight described in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) Being faroff and mysterious.
(b) Being the only light in the darkness.
(c) Being shapeless.
(d) Having shape without detail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet say followed humanities exile from heaven in "Matins" (#2)?

2. Where does the trillium flower describe waking in "Trillilum"?

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

4. What sound does the speaker in "Wild Iris" hear "darting in low shrubs" (1)?

5. The poet in "Matins" (#2) says humanity "took turns working the garden" (3) and never thought of who or what?

(see the answer keys)

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