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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 52 - 77).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) A really good movie.
(b) An expensive house.
(c) A demented rose-red circus tent.
(d) A pool.

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

3. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Warrior women and dagger girls.
(b) Queens.
(c) Servants.
(d) Kings.

4. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?
(a) Imperfect.
(b) Future.
(c) Past.
(d) Present.

5. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Bleed.
(b) Change.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?

2. What lies in the ditch in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

3. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?

4. Why, if victorious, did the scythians fight in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?

5. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?

(see the answer key)

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