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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker wonder if the person s/he is addressing looks for while looking beyond the field?
(a) A better place to garden.
(b) A sign the rain is coming.
(c) Heaven.
(d) A sign from God.

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

4. What adjective does the person in "Vespers" (#1) use to describe the peach which grows only in warm climates?
(a) Bountiful.
(b) Unimaginable.
(c) Fragile.
(d) Juicy.

5. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#5) think might move God to reveal himself?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Birth.
(c) Death.
(d) Grief.

6. Who is the speaker in "Vespers" (#1)?
(a) A fig tree.
(b) A tomato crop.
(c) The poet.
(d) God.

7. Who is the speaker in "Early Darkness"?
(a) The poet.
(b) God.
(c) All humanity.
(d) The nigth sky.

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

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

10. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#5)?
(a) The gardener.
(b) A weed.
(c) The flower bed.
(d) God.

11. What time of year does the poet in "The Doorway" wish she could remain forever?
(a) Late Spring.
(b) Late Summer.
(c) Early Spring.
(d) Early Summer.

12. What happens to the flowers at the top of the bush while the one at the bottom blooms dark red in "Song"?
(a) The wind blows away their petals.
(b) They are picked.
(c) They wilt.
(d) They thrive.

13. Who or what does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" address?
(a) A jacob's ladder plant.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The gardener.
(d) God.

14. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#1) say she does more intensely than others?
(a) Eats tomatoes.
(b) Despairs.
(c) Praises God.
(d) Gardens.

15. Who is "the lord in heaven" according to the poppy in "The Red Poppy"?
(a) The gardener.
(b) The sun.
(c) God.
(d) The rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker of "Jacob's Ladder" feel it is trapped?

2. What does John do in "Vespers" (#4) after 15 minutes of "intense effort" (42)?

3. Who does the speaker in "Field Flowers" address?

4. What does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" think the woman's grief signifies at the end of the poem?

5. Where does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" want to go?

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