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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#4) say s/he may be better for addressing instead of God?
2. What fire-filled thing is likened to moonlight in "Love in Moonlight"?
3. Who is the speaker in "April"?
4. What does the poet say followed humanities exile from heaven in "Matins" (#2)?
5. Who is the speaker in "Scilla"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Witchgrass," the witchgrass tells the gardener that it will remain for how long?
2. What does Noah say about depressives in "Matins" (#1)?
3. What pain does the iris describe in "Wild Iris"?
4. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?
5. Who is speaker in each of the "Matins" poems and who does the speaker address?
6. What does the poet struggle with and search for in many of the poems in which she address God?
7. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?
8. What does God say he gave people in "End of Winter" because that is what they wanted?
9. What does God tell humanity is the only thing they will hear in the final lines of "End of Summer"?
10. What does God say humanity truly wants in "Spring Snow"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choosing several of the poems written from the voice of the poet to God, write an essay analyzing the poet's changing thoughts on God's existence. Analyze the poems for tone and imagery, comparing and contrasting these aspects of the poem in a minimum of 4 poems.
Essay Topic 2
Choosing several of the poems written from the voice of God to the poet/ gardener/humanity write an essay analyzing God's changing tone toward the poet or humanity. Analyze the poems for tone and imagery, comparing and contrasting these aspects of the poem in a minimum of 4 poems.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing the collection as a whole. What themes are evident and what techniques does the poet use to convey these themes? Use textual evidence to support your analysis.
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