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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 103 - 122).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) The darkness.
(b) The songs.
(c) The work of our knives.
(d) The stories.

2. What does the speaker praise in the poem "If There Were No Emptiness"?
(a) Crowds.
(b) Masks.
(c) Vacancy.
(d) Vandalism.

3. What were all the werewolves in the old days in "Update on Werewolves"?
(a) Sad.
(b) Male.
(c) Angry.
(d) Tired.

4. What is one thing that has been done with old plastics in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Turning it into rock.
(b) Turning it into oil.
(c) Turning it into medicine.
(d) Turning it into solar energy.

5. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) The pebbles.
(b) The wind itself.
(c) The sea.
(d) The souls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do birds no longer need in "Mr. Lionheart"?

2. Where is Frida Kahlo everywhere in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

3. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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

5. What is the new name for a dead body in "Disenchanted Corpse"?

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