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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. Who does the speaker of "Scilla" address?
(a) A human audience.
(b) God.
(c) Another plant.
(d) The dirt.
2. Who is the speaker in the poem "Wild Iris"?
(a) The poet's husband.
(b) God.
(c) The iris.
(d) The poet.
3. What time of day does the poem "End of Winter" describe at the beginning?
(a) Early afternoon.
(b) Late evening.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Twilight.
4. The poet in "Matins" (#3) asks God if He may be more inconsistent like what type of plant?
(a) Lamium.
(b) Iris.
(c) Foxglove.
(d) Trillium.
5. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?
(a) Summer.
(b) The rains.
(c) Death.
(d) Nightfall.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does God say humans were too eager for in "End of Winter"?
2. What does God feel people have failed to do despite his effort in "Clear Morning'?
3. Why does the witchgrass feel humans even bothered to give it a name in "Witchgrass"?
4. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he may be better for addressing instead of God?
5. What was the couple given which compels the speaker in "April" to say he expected better of them?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does God feel about humanity in "Retreating Wind"?
2. Who is speaker in each of the "Matins" poems and who does the speaker address?
3. What does God say humanity truly wants in "Spring Snow"?
4. In "Scilla," what does the scilla say to its human audience that reflects its feeling toward humanity?
5. What does God say he gave people in "End of Winter" because that is what they wanted?
6. What does Noah say about depressives in "Matins" (#1)?
7. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?
8. In "Witchgrass," why does the witchgrass feel humans needed to give them a name?
9. What does God tell humans they will not hear "in the other world" (10) in "End of Summer"?
10. What does the witchgrass tell the gardener she must accept in regards to the flower it is accused of kllling in "Witchgrass"?
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