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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 the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
(a) A kitchen.
(b) A three-ring circus.
(c) A barn.
(d) A dance.

2. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Through a glare.
(b) Through lowered lids.
(c) Scheming.
(d) Aslant.

3. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They teach us how to travel to other galaxies.
(b) They show us all their recipes.
(c) They learn to live peacefully with us on eart.
(d) They make their way out of our bodies through our armpits.

4. What kind of animal does Atwood equate with human souls in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Birds.
(b) Cats.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

5. What did the madman once love in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) The peacock.
(b) The fog.
(c) The woodshed.
(d) This wildland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?

2. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?

3. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

4. What kinds of creatures also suffer from dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

5. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?

(see the answer key)

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