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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 has two of in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Two forms.
(b) Two types of love.
(c) Two faces.
(d) Two selves and two kinds of power.

2. Where does the speaker of "Retreating Wind" tell his audience they will not find what they are looking for?
(a) In God's love.
(b) In prayer.
(c) In the garden.
(d) In heaven.

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

4. Who is the speaker in "The Garden"?
(a) God.
(b) The poet.
(c) A young couple.
(d) A row of peas.

5. 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 ignored by the gardener.
(c) It feels hated by the gardener.
(d) It feels loved by the gardener.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?

2. What is the meaning of the sound God says they will hear in the other world in "End of Winter"?

3. Who is the speaker in "The Hawthorn Tree"?

4. What does God say people truly want in "Spring Snow"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker ask God's forgiveness for in "Matins" (#3)?

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

7. Why is God frustrated in "Clear Morning"?

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

9. What does God say he gave people in "End of Winter" because that is what they wanted?

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

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