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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. The poet in "Matins" (#1) disagrees with Noah, saying that she feels attached to what?
(a) The birdsong.
(b) The wild iris.
(c) The living tree.
(d) The summer breeze.

2. Who is the speaker in "Retreating Wind"?
(a) God.
(b) The wind.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The poet.

3. What does the poet in "Matins" (#3) say about God's silence?
(a) It is useless.
(b) It is comforting.
(c) It is powerful.
(d) It is chilling.

4. What does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" say he feels for his audience in the first lines?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Shame.
(c) Love.
(d) Pity.

5. How does the speaker in "Retreating Wind" describe human souls?
(a) Small talking things.
(b) Immortal.
(c) Vast, passionate things.
(d) Empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the trillium flower describe waking in "Trillilum"?

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

3. What is referred to as "a living thing" at the end of "Love in Moonlight"?

4. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?

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

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

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

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

7. How does God feel about humanity in "Retreating Wind"?

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

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

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

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