View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 52 - 77).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

2. Who is wrenched up by the sun in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Peter.
(c) Hepaticas.
(d) Cassandra.

3. What does the speaker imagine the cicadas' song is saying in the poem "Cicadas"?
(a) When?
(b) Never.
(c) Now.
(d) Go!

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

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 summer to start again.
(d) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

2. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?

3. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?

4. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 269 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample