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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 does the editor ask the speaker to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Editor's Notes"?
(a) Write about sad things.
(b) Be clearer.
(c) Pull back from exhortation and despair.
(d) Write about scary things.

2. What does a wolf in pain admit in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Fear.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

3. What does everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Fancy.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Trying.
(d) Calm.

4. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?
(a) What song the sirens sang to lure so many sailors to their deaths.
(b) What kind of children the sirens have.
(c) What kind of creatures the sirens really are.
(d) What kind of music lessons the sirens had.

5. What happens in Part 7 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They look like snakes and want us to be mean to each other.
(b) They look like octopi and want us to be kind to each other.
(c) They look just like us and want to take over the earth.
(d) They look like rabbits and can not communicate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the robot look like in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?

2. What happens to the albatross in "Plasticene Suite"?

3. What happens to whatever the Gods touch in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

4. What is the cancelled word in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

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

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