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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 do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Doors.
(b) Screws.
(c) Tiny frogs.
(d) Pins.

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

3. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A child.
(b) A person moving backwards in time.
(c) An ill person.
(d) A mermaid doomed to appear onshore every five years.

4. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Most poems are sad.
(b) Most poems are late.
(c) Most poems are from the future.
(d) Most poems are early.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?

4. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

5. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?

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