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

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

3. What does the speaker of "Scilla" say humans are always planning?
(a) Their silly lives.
(b) For immortality.
(c) Their death.
(d) To meet God.

4. What does God say humans were too eager for in "End of Winter"?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Sensation.
(c) God's love.
(d) Immortality.

5. What is referred to as "a living thing" at the end of "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) A soul.
(b) The earth.
(c) Love.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "The Garden"?

2. How does the speaker say s/he is not supposed to address God?

3. What did humanity want that they did not receive from God?

4. What words does the speaker on "Retreating Wind" repeat in regards to human life?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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