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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. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 8.

2. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(b) For summer to start again.
(c) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.
(d) For the birds to be set free.

3. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) The past.
(b) An old friend.
(c) A cat.
(d) A letter from a sailor that arrives after he has drowned.

4. What is one feature of happy dreams of wolves in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Humans.
(b) Trees.
(c) The tender bones of stupid caribou.
(d) Zombies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

2. Where does the coconut "materialize" in the poem "Coconut"?

3. How do the feathers fall in "Feather"?

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

5. What happens in Part 7 of "The Aliens Arrive"?

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