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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. Which of the following comparisons does Atwood use for late poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Being late for a wedding.
(b) Being late for a funeral.
(c) Being late for a communion.
(d) Being late for supper.

2. What is happening to the world in "Aflame"?
(a) It is getting destroyed by microbes.
(b) It is drowning.
(c) It is burning up.
(d) It is hurtling off of orbit.

3. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you in pain?
(b) Can you see the sunset, still?
(c) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(d) Are you a flower or a well?

4. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They put humans in zoos and watch them have sex all day.
(b) They drown all the humans.
(c) They take all the humans back to their planets.
(d) They eat all the humans.

5. What do plastics make lighter for carrying water in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Buckets.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Umbrellas.
(d) Container ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the leaves in the garden remind the speaker of in "Tracking the Rain"?

2. What do lions not know in "Mr. Lionheart"?

3. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

4. Where do the best blackberries grow, according to the speaker in "Blackberries"?

5. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

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