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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. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?
(a) Pizza restaurants.
(b) Funeral parlors.
(c) The park.
(d) Other people's dreams.

2. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Feed a spider to the birds.
(b) Eat a spider.
(c) Name a spider.
(d) Kill a spider in the house.

3. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?
(a) This sister is not empty air any longer, she is there with the speaker.
(b) The speaker dies.
(c) The speaker looks at the sunset.
(d) The speaker cries.

4. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Through lowered lids.
(b) Through a glare.
(c) Aslant.
(d) Scheming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?

2. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

3. What happens if one "looks behind" in the poem "Salt"?

4. What lies in the ditch in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

5. What happens to the albatross in "Plasticene Suite"?

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