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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Garden of Eden," what does the narrator greatly miss?
(a) The city.
(b) The Garden of Eden on Montague Street.
(c) Her college friends.
(d) Her brownstone in Brooklyn.

2. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) Down from a high bridge to still water.
(b) To the river from a high peak.
(c) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(d) To the mountains from the city.

3. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) Where do shadows come from?
(c) How much more will we bury in the earth?
(d) What hides in the shadows?

4. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?
(a) What is must be like flying between heaven and earth.
(b) What it must be like working for God.
(c) What they must go through to continually come earth side to encourage us to not have fear.
(d) How simple their lives must be.

5. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?
(a) The steepness of its incline.
(b) There is no one there.
(c) The nature and wildlife around him.
(d) How the bank is eroding.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?

2. In "The World is Your Beautiful Younger Sister," the world is compared to what?

3. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?

4. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?

5. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

(see the answer key)

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