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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 flower does the poet in "The Doorway" describe as it just starts to open?
(a) Crocuses.
(b) Roses.
(c) Irises.
(d) Tulips.

2. What is described as "the heart's constant backdrop" (27) in "Song"?
(a) The summer breeze.
(b) The light.
(c) The blue sky.
(d) The dark.

3. Who is the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder"?
(a) A jacob's ladder plant.
(b) The gardener.
(c) God.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does the speaker in "Midsummer" say all humanity does while crying out their needs "in the open field" (34)?
(a) Forget to praise God.
(b) Say too many things at once.
(c) Strangle each other.
(d) Drown each other out.

5. Who is the field of daisies addressing in "Daisies"?
(a) God.
(b) Th sun.
(c) The violets.
(d) A human.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does the speaker in "Jacob's Ladder" address?

2. Who is the speaker in "Early Darkness"?

3. In "The Red Poppy," what does the red poppy say it does not have despite having feelings?

4. Who or what is the speaker in "Heaven and Earth"?

5. Who is "the lord in heaven" according to the poppy in "The Red Poppy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the poet express regret for thinking in "Matins" (#7)?

2. What does the flower ask the human at the start of "Field Flowers"?

3. What does the poet say is a way of God revealing Himself in "Vespers" (#5)?

4. What does the poet in "Vespers" (#2) tell God she failed to do at the start of the poem?

5. What does the clover question in regards to people's view of the four leaf clover in "Clover"?

6. What does the poet in "Heaven and Earth" question in regards to her husband at the end of the poem?

7. Why does the poet in "Vespers" (#1) plant a fig tree in Vermont?

8. What is the gardener in "Matins" (#5) doing while she pretends to weed?

9. In "Vespers" (#4), where does the poet say she knows God is?

10. "In Doorway," how does the poet describe the late spring?

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