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This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Wild Iris Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 the speaker of "Scilla" call his audience?
(a) Fool.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Master.
(d) Beautiful.

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

3. Who does the speaker of "Scilla" address?
(a) God.
(b) A human audience.
(c) The dirt.
(d) Another plant.

4. What does the speaker in "April" tell the couple has been distributed among all creatures?
(a) God's anger.
(b) Joy.
(c) Grief.
(d) God's love.

5. How is the moonlight described in "Love in Moonlight"?
(a) Being the only light in the darkness.
(b) Being faroff and mysterious.
(c) Having shape without detail.
(d) Being shapeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flower with "deep blue" (20) marks is referenced at the end of "April"?

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

3. In "Matins" (#1), what types of people does Noah say "hate the spring" (2)?

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

5. How does the speaker say s/he is not supposed to address God?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Scilla," what does the scilla say to its human audience that reflects its feeling toward humanity?

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

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

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

5. In "Love in Moonlight," how does the speaker describe how humans sometimes force their despair on others?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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