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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?
(a) Planting tomato plants.
(b) Planting a row of peas.
(c) Planting irises.
(d) Weeding the garden.

2. What does the witchgrass say the garden bed is a paradigm of in "Witchgrass"?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Life.
(c) Failure.
(d) Success.

3. What flowers "burst" up as a sign of spring in "The Garden"?
(a) Red Roses.
(b) Trilliums.
(c) White Irises.
(d) Purple Crocuses.

4. What eartly image is referenced multiple times in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sun.
(c) The night sky.
(d) The stars.

5. Who is the speaker in "Witchgrass"?
(a) A field.
(b) God.
(c) The poet.
(d) A witchgrass plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake does Noah say depressives make in "Matins" (#1)?

2. What does God feel people have failed to do despite his effort in "Clear Morning'?

3. The poet in "Matins" (#1) disagrees with Noah, saying that she feels attached to what?

4. What does God say humans were too eager for in "End of Winter"?

5. What does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" say he feels for his audience in the first lines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises the snowdrop flower at the end of "Snowdrops"?

2. Why does the hawthorn tree say it does not have to follow the couple to know what they are going through in "Hawthorn Tree"?

3. What does the witchgrass tell the gardener she must accept in regards to the flower it is accused of kllling in "Witchgrass"?

4. Why is God frustrated in "Clear Morning"?

5. What does the speaker ask God's forgiveness for in "Matins" (#3)?

6. What does the poet struggle with and search for in many of the poems in which she address God?

7. What does God tell humanity is the only thing they will hear in the final lines of "End of Summer"?

8. What does Noah say about depressives in "Matins" (#1)?

9. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) say in regards to the lesson God tried to teach humanity?

10. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?

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