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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 25 - 51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?
(a) That they will all be successful one day.
(b) That the teacher is stupid.
(c) That the teacher is funny.
(d) That the teacher is kind.

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

3. What does Atwood compare the subject of the poem "Blizzard" to?
(a) A deer.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A snow leopard.
(d) A diver plunged into a dangerous cave.

4. What was wool worn next to the skin once symbolic of in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Ceasefire.
(c) An army decree.
(d) Weddings.

5. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Servants.
(b) Kings.
(c) Queens.
(d) Warrior women and dagger girls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

3. Who used to take the dear ones in the poem "The Dear Ones"?

4. What does Cassandra fantasize about possessing in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

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

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