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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who or what is the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?
(a) God.
(b) The horizon.
(c) The poet.
(d) The poet's husband.

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

4. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#2) apologize for failing to do at the start of the poem?
(a) Share the tomato crop with her family.
(b) Produce a succesful tomato crop.
(c) Believe in God.
(d) Find proof God exists.

5. What is described as "the heart's constant backdrop" (27) in "Song"?
(a) The summer breeze.
(b) The blue sky.
(c) The light.
(d) The dark.

6. What does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" think the woman's grief signifies at the end of the poem?
(a) Her desire for immortality.
(b) Frustration with her garden.
(c) Pain of losing her partner.
(d) Depression.

7. What does the speaker say s/he regrets thinking of humanity as in "Matins" (#7)?
(a) An experiment.
(b) A joke.
(c) Selfish.
(d) A waste of time.

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

9. Who is the speaker of "Midsummer"?
(a) The sun.
(b) The poet.
(c) God.
(d) Humanity.

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

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

12. What does the person in "Vespers" (#1) say she struggles to share with her husband and son?
(a) Apricots.
(b) The tomato crop.
(c) The peaches.
(d) Her figs.

13. Who is God speaking to in "Harvest"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) The fields.
(c) The sun.
(d) Vineyards.

14. Who is the speaker in "End of Summer"?
(a) The poet.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Field Flowers"?

2. What time of year is it in "Matins" (#5)?

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

4. What color do the sick trees turn in "Matins" (#5)?

5. Who is "the lord in heaven" according to the poppy in "The Red Poppy"?

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