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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 25 - 51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The fiction that this one likes you.
(b) The fiction that anyone is owed anything in life.
(c) The fiction that all family ties are strong.
(d) The fiction that you can live forever.

2. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) A really good movie.
(b) An expensive house.
(c) A pool.
(d) A demented rose-red circus tent.

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

4. What does everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Trying.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Calm.

5. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?
(a) Be aware.
(b) Someone wants your body.
(c) The light fades away from day.
(d) Who has two?

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

4. What is the taste of the coconut mixed with in the poem "Coconut"?

5. What does the speaker praise in the poem "If There Were No Emptiness"?

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