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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 could the speaker do to save her sister if this were a story in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Speak a magic charm to bring her back.
(b) Give her a magic apple.
(c) Get a witch to cast a spell.
(d) Find the right prince.

2. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn down the music.
(b) Turn up the light.
(c) Turn down the bedcovers.
(d) Turn up the radio.

3. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Did I do that?
(b) Was it a flood?
(c) Will this be a good thing or a bad thing?
(d) What happened?

4. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Ash.
(c) Snow.
(d) Teardrops.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one feature of happy dreams of wolves in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

2. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

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

4. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

5. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?

(see the answer key)

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