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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) Rock.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Twigs.

2. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Rock.
(b) Shallows.
(c) Sea.
(d) Tree.

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

4. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?
(a) Because we want them to.
(b) Because the djinns want them to.
(c) Because God wills them to.
(d) Because the sorcerers made it this way.

5. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) Sea breezes.
(b) Bagels.
(c) Bare hills and stunted trees.
(d) Wind and rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the feathers fall in "Feather"?

2. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

3. What is happening to the world in "Aflame"?

4. Why does the spider dislike the floor in "Spider Signatures"?

5. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?

(see the answer key)

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