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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 is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Getting the right books.
(b) Finding money.
(c) Finding the sorcerer again.
(d) Getting the machine to stop.

2. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

3. What is already dissolving in the shore water in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) A plastic ring.
(b) A jellyfish.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) An otter.

4. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Name a spider.
(b) Eat a spider.
(c) Kill a spider in the house.
(d) Feed a spider to the birds.

5. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?
(a) The whale carrying her dead calf.
(b) The shark carrying the fish.
(c) The tangled birds in the sea.
(d) The person carrying the dead calf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crashes into the speaker's window in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

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

3. Who is wrenched up by the sun in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

4. In what way is a wolf courteous in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

5. How does the defining foliage of the oil age differ from true foliage in "Plasticene Suite"?

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