Answer all the questions on the above poem.

1. What were the rooks doing on the day the bulldozers came?
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2. Green flies sizzled by the pond. What sound is the poet making us aware
of?
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3. Why do you think the poet has described the toad as cold-eyed?
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4. What were the squirrels doing on the day the bulldozers came?
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5. What impression dies the poet give nature in the first two stanzas?
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6. What caused the fox to stir in his sleep?
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7. How does the poet make the fox seem human?
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8. Why did the fox think he would be safe?
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9. Then the bulldozers came. Whar do you think would have happened to
the fox?
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10.Why do you think the poet has written this poem?
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