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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color do the sick trees turn in "Matins" (#5)?
(a) Dull brown.
(b) Deep red.
(c) Light green.
(d) Brilliant yellow.

2. In what way does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) feel her affliction is different than the sick rose?
(a) She knows how to heal the rose, but not herself.
(b) The sick rose is cared for by the gardener.
(c) The sick rose stays among other roses while she remains apart from others.
(d) The sick rose still has the sunlight.

3. Why does the speaker feel it is difficult to please all creations?
(a) They all want something different.
(b) They do not believe in God.
(c) They will not say what they truly want.
(d) They are never pleased once they get what they want.

4. Who is the field of daisies addressing in "Daisies"?
(a) Th sun.
(b) God.
(c) A human.
(d) The violets.

5. Where does the speaker of "Jacob's Ladder" feel it is trapped?
(a) In limbo.
(b) In Hell.
(c) In the earth.
(d) In a garden.

6. Where does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" want to go?
(a) To the forest.
(b) Inside the house.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Back in the garden.

7. Who is the speaker in "Field Flowers"?
(a) A field of flowers.
(b) The grass.
(c) A human.
(d) God.

8. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#5) say she lives mostly in at the start of the poem?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Religious contemplation.
(c) Solitude.
(d) The garden.

9. What is the gardener in "Matins" (#5) pretending to do in the beginning of the poem?
(a) Weed the garden.
(b) Water the plants.
(c) Harvest her vegetables.
(d) Pray.

10. What does the speaker in "Midsummer" remind humanity they were not intended to be?
(a) Unique.
(b) Blessed.
(c) Immortal.
(d) Holy.

11. How does the speaker in "End of Summer" refer to humanity?
(a) Master of everything.
(b) Self indulgent experiment.
(c) Poor inspired creation.
(d) Disgraced beings.

12. The daisies in "Daisies" say that the mind wants to shine like what?
(a) The sun.
(b) Machines.
(c) The shimmering lake.
(d) Dew covered grass.

13. What do the daisies think people are more interested in than nature in "Daisies"?
(a) Video games.
(b) Technology.
(c) Writing about nature.
(d) Reading.

14. What does the speaker in "Midsummer" say all humanity does while crying out their needs "in the open field" (34)?
(a) Strangle each other.
(b) Forget to praise God.
(c) Say too many things at once.
(d) Drown each other out.

15. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#3) wonder if God loves more than her?
(a) Himself.
(b) The beasts of the field.
(c) The fig tree.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) address?

2. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#1) say she does more intensely than others?

3. Why does the red poppy say it is speaking at the end of "The Red Poppy"?

4. How is the sun described as it shines off the mountains in "Matins" (#7)?

5. Who or what does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" address?

(see the answer keys)

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