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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. The poet in "Matins" (#1) disagrees with Noah, saying that she feels attached to what?
2. What eartly image is referenced multiple times in "Love in Moonlight"?
3. What does the witchgrass say the garden bed is a paradigm of in "Witchgrass"?
4. What does God say people truly want in "Spring Snow"?
5. What does the woman in "The Garden" do as a sign of truce when the couple disagree about whether to stop or continue?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the lamium flower say in regards to the light and sun in "Lamium"?
2. What does the speaker of "Matins" (#4) wonder if she is better of addressing instead of God?
3. What does the trilium flower learn in its first moments of life in "Trillium" and why?
4. In "Witchgrass," the witchgrass tells the gardener that it will remain for how long?
5. What does the speaker in "Matins" (#2) say in regards to the lesson God tried to teach humanity?
6. Why does God say He can hardly bare to look at the couple in the garden in "The Garden"?
7. What does God tell humans they will not hear "in the other world" (10) in "End of Summer"?
8. What does God say he gave people in "End of Winter" because that is what they wanted?
9. In "Scilla," what does the scilla say to its human audience that reflects its feeling toward humanity?
10. In "April," what does God say to the man and woman in the garden regarding their grief?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the garden as a place of religious reflection. Choose 3 - 5 poem's in which the garden contemplate religion and discuss how the garden and what happens in it is a reflection of this contemplation.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the difference between the speaker and her husband John in 2 - 3 poems. How are their views different and what techniques does the poet use to convey these differences?
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