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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 did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Let's go out and fight the storm.
(b) Let's play in the snow.
(c) Let's find some flowers in the snow.
(d) It's just a blizzard.

2. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The fiction that anyone is owed anything in life.
(b) The fiction that you can live forever.
(c) The fiction that this one likes you.
(d) The fiction that all family ties are strong.

3. What are Kahlo's colors in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?
(a) Purple and ochre.
(b) Mauve and orange.
(c) Azure, sunset, and blood.
(d) Green and blue.

4. What is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?
(a) Water.
(b) Wind.
(c) Birds.
(d) Oxidation.

5. When is every life a failure in "Feather"?
(a) At dusk.
(b) At the last hour.
(c) At dawn.
(d) At the apocalypse.

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 keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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

4. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?

5. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?

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