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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 speaker in "Retreating Wind" tells his audience that their lives are not what, like the plants?
(a) Fragile.
(b) Circular.
(c) Dependent on other humans.
(d) Dependent on the sun.

2. Who does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he should be buried with at the end of the poem?
(a) The Romantics.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The tomato plant.
(d) The dying flowers.

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

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

5. To whom is the speaker addressing in "Matins" (#3)?
(a) Flower.
(b) Sun.
(c) God.
(d) Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman in "The Garden" do as a sign of truce when the couple disagree about whether to stop or continue?

2. Who is the speaker in "Scilla"?

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

4. What does the speaker in "Love in Moonlight" say people sometimes force on one another?

5. What does God say he "cannot go on restricting [himself] to" (8) in "Clear Morning"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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