View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 78 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do plastics make "clear as whistling" in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Songs in microphones.
(b) Voices over telephones.
(c) Visions seen through plastic glasses lenses.
(d) Visions seen through plastic contact lenses.

2. What is the cancelled word in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Last.
(b) Madman.
(c) Worsted.
(d) First.

3. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) Four haikus.
(b) Nine late-night movies.
(c) Ten vignettes.
(d) Eight one-line poems.

4. What do the new werewolves sing as they run through the world?
(a) Belle dame!
(b) Freedom and power!
(c) Find me now!
(d) Wind and rain!

5. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?
(a) Because the sorcerers made it this way.
(b) Because God wills them to.
(c) Because we want them to.
(d) Because the djinns want them to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

2. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

3. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?

4. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?

5. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 273 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample