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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Teardrops.
(b) Ash.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Snow.

2. What does the speaker wonder if the robot will do in "Little Robot"?
(a) Treat humans well.
(b) Find a cure for illnesses that afflict humans.
(c) Find out the secret to life.
(d) Learn to love.

3. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

4. In what way is a wolf courteous in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) In the formal sense.
(b) Up to a point.
(c) In the informal sense.
(d) In the context of wolf culture.

5. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) She screams.
(b) She faints.
(c) She vomits.
(d) She falls asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

2. What does the speaker implore the rain to do in "Tracking the Rain"?

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

4. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

5. What is one thing that has been done with old plastics in "Plasticene Suite"?

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