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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. Why, if victorious, did the scythians fight in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) For the glory.
(b) For the king's honor.
(c) For the loot.
(d) For the legends.

2. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?
(a) Who has two?
(b) Someone wants your body.
(c) The light fades away from day.
(d) Be aware.

3. How do the feathers fall in "Feather"?
(a) Like the wind.
(b) One at a time.
(c) Only by handfuls.
(d) Like a rainstorm.

4. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?
(a) An ill person.
(b) A person moving backwards in time.
(c) A mermaid doomed to appear onshore every five years.
(d) A child.

5. Why does the speaker not realize how good things were in the poem "Salt"?
(a) She was working too hard.
(b) She was too ill.
(c) She was too sleepy.
(d) She was too busy worrying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the madman once love in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

2. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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

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

5. What does the speaker praise in the poem "If There Were No Emptiness"?

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