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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 is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Water.
(c) Oxidation.
(d) Birds.

2. Why do people give others souvenirs from vacations in the poem "Souvenir"?
(a) So the receiver can remember them.
(b) So they will want to travel too.
(c) So they can call the spirits.
(d) So they can decorate their homes.

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

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

5. Why does the spider dislike the floor in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) It is too wet there.
(b) There are too many human feet there.
(c) It is too visible there.
(d) It is too cold there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which people are at the far end of the table right next to the door in "At the Translation Conference"?

2. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?

3. What do the new werewolves sing as they run through the world?

4. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?

5. What do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?

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