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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. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?
(a) The park.
(b) Pizza restaurants.
(c) Other people's dreams.
(d) Funeral parlors.

2. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) It is struck by lightening.
(b) It burns down.
(c) It flourishes.
(d) It is swept away in a flood.

3. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is soft.
(b) It is crackly.
(c) It is brown.
(d) It is the mark of poverty.

4. What does the speaker and others leave behind them as they skim through time in "Winter Vacations"?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Muffin crumbs.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Leaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?

2. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

3. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?

4. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?

5. What does the speaker fear the children will grow up without in "Oh Children"?

(see the answer key)

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