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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 words does the speaker on "Retreating Wind" repeat in regards to human life?
(a) It is in God's hands.
(b) It begins and end.
(c) It is circular.
(d) It is fragile.

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

3. What does God say he "cannot go on restricting [himself] to" (8) in "Clear Morning"?
(a) His anger.
(b) Images.
(c) Signs.
(d) Time.

4. What does God tell humanity they can do in "Spring Snow"?
(a) Stop believing in Him.
(b) Close their eyes.
(c) Stop calling to Him.
(d) Forget about immortality.

5. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) A soul.
(c) A lover's heart.
(d) Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "Scilla" call his audience?

2. Under what great tree does the lamium live in "Lamium"?

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

4. What does God say humans were too eager for in "End of Winter"?

5. To whom is the speaker of "Wild Iris" speaking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the violets refer to the gardener in "Violets"?

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

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

8. Who is speaker in each of the "Matins" poems and who does the speaker address?

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

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

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