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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 do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?
(a) Books.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Hollowed eggs.
(d) Plastics.

2. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) It is swept away in a flood.
(b) It flourishes.
(c) It is struck by lightening.
(d) It burns down.

3. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?
(a) There is a cigarette butt.
(b) There is a string.
(c) There is a plastic bag.
(d) There is a broken cassette tape.

4. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Never.
(b) Yes.
(c) Perhaps.
(d) Maybe.

5. What happens when the gods frown in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) Humans get sick.
(b) The weather is bad.
(c) The days are longer.
(d) Humans lose knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?

2. What does the speaker fear the children will grow up without in "Oh Children"?

3. What is the main problem with the plastics in the environment in "Plasticene Suite"?

4. What does Rilke say poetry is in "Zombie"?

5. What did everything once have, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

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