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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 does the speaker implore the rain to do in "Tracking the Rain"?
(a) Let it come down.
(b) Flood the earth.
(c) Be kind.
(d) Stop.

2. What does the speaker wonder if the robot will do in "Little Robot"?
(a) Find out the secret to life.
(b) Treat humans well.
(c) Learn to love.
(d) Find a cure for illnesses that afflict humans.

3. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Love! This Way! In!
(b) Help!
(c) Beware.
(d) Bombs Away!

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

5. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?
(a) A fern.
(b) A snail.
(c) A comma.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the three fates do in the poem "One Day"?

2. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?

3. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?

4. Where does the spider really like to be in the house in "Spider Signatures"?

5. What does the speaker save from the plane to eat in the hotel room in "Silver Slippers"?

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