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

2. What is the outdoor gear of the "darlings" like in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Careless.
(c) Cheap.
(d) Matching.

3. Why does the spider dislike the floor in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) It is too wet there.
(b) It is too visible there.
(c) It is too cold there.
(d) There are too many human feet there.

4. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?
(a) They are small and weak, so we kill them.
(b) They die in our atmosphere.
(c) They are smarter than us, and carnivorous - you know the rest.
(d) They look like us, so we accept them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker praise in the poem "If There Were No Emptiness"?

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

3. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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

5. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?

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