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

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

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

4. What is the taste of the coconut mixed with in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) Ash and the shards of destruction.
(b) Hay.
(c) Avocado.
(d) Orange.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Atwood compare the subject of the poem "Blizzard" to?

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

3. What happens if one "looks behind" in the poem "Salt"?

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

5. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?

(see the answer key)

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