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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 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) Find the right prince.
(c) Get a witch to cast a spell.
(d) Give her a magic apple.

2. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?
(a) The speaker looks at the sunset.
(b) This sister is not empty air any longer, she is there with the speaker.
(c) The speaker dies.
(d) The speaker cries.

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

4. What is one of the problems with the body in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) It attracts too much attention.
(b) It is weak.
(c) It is liable to become ill.
(d) It is fickle.

5. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) If the dead sister will live on in dreams.
(b) If the dead sister would forgive her murderer or not.
(c) If the dead sister wanted to have children.
(d) If the dead sister's soul is at peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

2. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?

3. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?

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

5. What is caught in the glare of your stare in the poem "Betrayal"?

(see the answer key)

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