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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 would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(b) For summer to start again.
(c) For the birds to be set free.
(d) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.

2. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?
(a) A cat.
(b) A comma.
(c) A fern.
(d) A snail.

3. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) The sorrow.
(b) The dawn.
(c) The mystery.
(d) The rage.

4. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Sunset.

5. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Stories.
(c) Horror.
(d) Nothing but flame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sister who is no longer there, now that she is gone, in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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

3. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?

4. Who has killed so many sisters over the years in Part 6 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

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