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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 has the young couple in "The Garden" not yet encountered according to the speaker?
(a) Life's great difficulties.
(b) Proof of God's existence.
(c) Doubt of God's existence.
(d) A successful vegetable garden.

2. What does the speaker say is "the end of [her] suffering" (1) in "Wild Iris"?
(a) Nightfall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Death.
(d) The rains.

3. In "Spring Snow," God condemns humanity for not believing in Him, despite His doing what?
(a) Believing in them.
(b) Giving them an obvious sign.
(c) Answer their calls.
(d) Giving them everything they want.

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

5. Who is the speaker in "Snowdrops"?
(a) A snowflake.
(b) A snowdrop flower.
(c) God.
(d) The poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hawthorn tree in "The Hawthorn Tree" believe to be the reason for what the couple left behind?

2. What sound does the speaker in "Wild Iris" hear "darting in low shrubs" (1)?

3. How is the moonlight described in "Love in Moonlight"?

4. What was the couple given which compels the speaker in "April" to say he expected better of them?

5. The poet in "Matins" (#2) says humanity "took turns working the garden" (3) and never thought of who or what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What pain does the iris describe in "Wild Iris"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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