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

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

3. What does the person in "Vespers" (#1) try to plant as a test of God's existence?
(a) A tomato crop.
(b) A peach tree.
(c) An apricot tree.
(d) A fig tree.

4. What flower does the poet in "The Doorway" describe as it just starts to open?
(a) Roses.
(b) Tulips.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Irises.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where does the person in "Vespers" (#1) suggest God may only exist?
(a) In warmer climates.
(b) In the sunrise.
(c) In one's mind.
(d) In other countries.

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

12. Who is the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder"?
(a) God.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The gardener.
(d) A jacob's ladder plant.

13. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#6) feel happens to her over and over at the start of the poem?
(a) Her garden fails.
(b) She suffers the seasons.
(c) Her heart breaks.
(d) Her roses die.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of year is everything possible according to the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?

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

3. What time of year does the poet in "The Doorway" wish she could remain forever?

4. Who is the speaker in "Matins" (#7)?

5. What do the daisies think people are more interested in than nature in "Daisies"?

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