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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 cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Refuses to drink even milk.
(b) Eats too much tuna.
(c) Kills the fish in the tank.
(d) Claws at the bedroom door waiting to be let in.

2. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Turn the key and bar the window.
(b) Call the children to care for her.
(c) Take care of her.
(d) Send her to a care home.

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

4. What lies in the ditch in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Money.
(b) A dead skunk.
(c) Ripped clothes.
(d) A woman's torso.

5. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn down the music.
(b) Turn up the light.
(c) Turn down the bedcovers.
(d) Turn up the radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?

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

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

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

5. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

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