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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 78 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They kill most of us, and a few are left alive after they leave.
(b) We eat some of their food, and it is good.
(c) We kill most of them.
(d) We go with them back to their own world.

2. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
(a) A dance.
(b) A three-ring circus.
(c) A kitchen.
(d) A barn.

3. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) Four haikus.
(b) Eight one-line poems.
(c) Ten vignettes.
(d) Nine late-night movies.

4. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They learn to live peacefully with us on eart.
(b) They make their way out of our bodies through our armpits.
(c) They teach us how to travel to other galaxies.
(d) They show us all their recipes.

5. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?
(a) She had just lost her home in a flood.
(b) She was ill.
(c) She was scared of the mushrooms.
(d) She was immersed elsewhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

2. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

3. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?

4. What crashes into the speaker's window in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

5. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

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