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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. Where does the speaker tell the couple they have no place in thinking such things in "April"?
(a) Earth.
(b) The garden.
(c) Church.
(d) Heaven.

2. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he should be buried with at the end of the poem?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The Romantics.
(c) The dying flowers.
(d) The tomato plant.

3. What does God say "glitters like the moon" (9) in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) The garden.
(c) The earth.
(d) The snowfall.

4. What is the meaning of the sound God says they will hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?
(a) Hello.
(b) Good-bye.
(c) Nevermore.
(d) No more.

5. What flower with "deep blue" (20) marks is referenced at the end of "April"?
(a) Scilla.
(b) Iris.
(c) Violet.
(d) Cornflower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the witchgrass feel humans even bothered to give it a name in "Witchgrass"?

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

3. What does the trillium flower in "Trillium" think some people need?

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

5. What does the lamium say "living things don't all require...in the same degree" (5)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?

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

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

5. What does the lamium flower say in regards to the light and sun in "Lamium"?

6. What does God say humanity truly wants in "Spring Snow"?

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

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

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

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

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