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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 has the young couple in "The Garden" not yet encountered according to the speaker?
(a) Doubt of God's existence.
(b) Life's great difficulties.
(c) Proof of God's existence.
(d) A successful vegetable garden.

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

3. How does the witchgrass feel the gardener feels about it in "Witchgrass"?
(a) It feels the garden is ambivalent about its presence.
(b) It feels hated by the gardener.
(c) It feels loved by the gardener.
(d) It feels ignored by the gardener.

4. What does the lamium say "living things don't all require...in the same degree" (5)?
(a) Activity.
(b) Food.
(c) God.
(d) Light.

5. What is one of the things God says He gifted to humanity in "Retreating Wind"?
(a) The sun.
(b) A conscience.
(c) More time than they knew how to use.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The speaker in "Matins" (#4) said that s/he asked God to be what?

4. How does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" describe human souls?

5. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he may be better for addressing instead of God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In "Witchgrass," the witchgrass tells the gardener that it will remain for how long?

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

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

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

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

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