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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. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A child.
(b) A mermaid doomed to appear onshore every five years.
(c) An ill person.
(d) A person moving backwards in time.

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

3. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Roses.
(b) Violets.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Daisies.

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

5. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Screws.
(b) Doors.
(c) Pins.
(d) Tiny frogs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker drive into the soft eyes of the coconut in the poem "Coconut"?

3. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?

4. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?

5. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?

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