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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 does God say He let people do because it is what they wanted in "End of Winter"?
(a) He let them speak.
(b) He let them be born.
(c) He gave them free will.
(d) He let them garden.

2. What does the poet say followed humanities exile from heaven in "Matins" (#2)?
(a) Years of darkness.
(b) Evil.
(c) Serenity.
(d) Chaos.

3. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?
(a) The rains.
(b) Nightfall.
(c) Death.
(d) Summer.

4. The poet in "Matins" (#1) refers to a conversation she had with whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her sister.
(d) He husband.

5. What does God tell humanity they will no hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?
(a) Rainfall.
(b) God's voice.
(c) The wind.
(d) Their own voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "Snowdrops"?

2. How does the hawthorn tree observe the couple walking in the garden in "The Hawthorn Tree"?

3. What is the young couple doing in "The Garden"?

4. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?

5. The poet in "Matins" (#3) ask God if what may be his goal?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Scilla," what does the scilla say to its human audience that reflects its feeling toward humanity?

2. Why does God say He can hardly bare to look at the couple in the garden in "The Garden"?

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

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

5. In "April," what does God say to the man and woman in the garden regarding their grief?

6. In "Love in Moonlight," how does the speaker describe how humans sometimes force their despair on others?

7. What does God tell humans they will not hear "in the other world" (10) in "End of Summer"?

8. In "Witchgrass," why does the witchgrass feel humans needed to give them a name?

9. Who is speaker in each of the "Matins" poems and who does the speaker address?

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

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