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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 one thing that has been done with old plastics in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Turning it into rock.
(b) Turning it into oil.
(c) Turning it into medicine.
(d) Turning it into solar energy.

2. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?
(a) Beware.
(b) Hail!
(c) Mercy.
(d) Glory.

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

4. What is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Twigs.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Rock.

5. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Never.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the plastic "rock" look like in "Plasticene Suite"?

5. What does the editor suggest letting people do in "Editorial Notes"?

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