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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. How does the defining foliage of the oil age differ from true foliage in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) It is rootless.
(b) It is tough.
(c) It is red.
(d) It likes the wind.

2. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They eat all the humans.
(b) They take all the humans back to their planets.
(c) They put humans in zoos and watch them have sex all day.
(d) They drown all the humans.

3. What is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Getting the right books.
(b) Finding money.
(c) Getting the machine to stop.
(d) Finding the sorcerer again.

4. What happens to whatever the Gods touch in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) It turns red.
(b) It takes on a life of its own.
(c) It turns to dust.
(d) It grows.

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

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 is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?

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

4. What do plastics make "clear as whistling" in "The Bright Side"?

5. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?

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