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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 does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Love! This Way! In!
(b) Bombs Away!
(c) Beware.
(d) Help!

2. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) Can you see the sunset, still?
(c) Are you in pain?
(d) If you were a song, what song would you be?

3. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) If the dead sister's soul is at peace.
(b) If the dead sister wanted to have children.
(c) If the dead sister would forgive her murderer or not.
(d) If the dead sister will live on in dreams.

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

5. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
(a) A knife.
(b) A scissors.
(c) A woodworking tool.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?

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

3. Where does the coconut "materialize" in the poem "Coconut"?

4. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?

5. What made a comeback for people to buy after the war in the poem "Coconut"?

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