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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 is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Twigs.
(d) Rock.

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

3. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) A cat.
(b) A letter from a sailor that arrives after he has drowned.
(c) An old friend.
(d) The past.

4. How do the feathers fall in "Feather"?
(a) Like a rainstorm.
(b) One at a time.
(c) Only by handfuls.
(d) Like the wind.

5. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) The march of time.
(b) Waned flesh.
(c) How to heal the sick.
(d) How fickle humans are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?

2. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?

3. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?

4. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?

5. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?

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