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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the speaker in "Clover"?
(a) A clover plant.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The gardener.

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

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

5. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#3) think might be God's gift to her so that she is aware she needs Him?
(a) Pain.
(b) The drought.
(c) The garden.
(d) The sheep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where does the speaker of "Vespers" (#4) say she knows God is at the start of the poem?
(a) In the cool summer breeze.
(b) In the garden at sunset.
(c) In the garden with John.
(d) In the garden with Noah.

14. In "The Red Poppy," what does the red poppy say it does not have despite having feelings?
(a) A soul.
(b) A caretaker.
(c) A mind.
(d) A friend.

15. Why does the red poppy say it is speaking at the end of "The Red Poppy"?
(a) Because it has found God.
(b) Because it is scared.
(c) Because it cares for humanity.
(d) Because it is shattered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in "Vespers" (#2) apologize for failing to do at the start of the poem?

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

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

4. Who is the speaker in "End of Summer"?

5. Who is the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder"?

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