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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 24).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Through a glare.
(b) Through lowered lids.
(c) Scheming.
(d) Aslant.

2. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) A letter from a sailor that arrives after he has drowned.
(b) A cat.
(c) An old friend.
(d) The past.

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

4. What do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?
(a) Curls of hair from children or lovers.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Paintbrushes.
(d) Pearls.

5. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Dresses.
(b) Sheets.
(c) Towels.
(d) Shrouds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was wool worn next to the skin once symbolic of in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

3. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?

4. Why does the speaker not realize how good things were in the poem "Salt"?

5. What does the cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

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