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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 in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They learn to live peacefully with us on eart.
(b) They make their way out of our bodies through our armpits.
(c) They show us all their recipes.
(d) They teach us how to travel to other galaxies.

2. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?
(a) An ill person.
(b) A mermaid doomed to appear onshore every five years.
(c) A child.
(d) A person moving backwards in time.

3. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Sunset.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

4. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Did I do that?
(b) Will this be a good thing or a bad thing?
(c) What happened?
(d) Was it a flood?

5. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A woman who has just been arrested.
(b) A cat.
(c) A child.
(d) An ill person.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

4. Why does the speaker not realize how good things were in the poem "Salt"?

5. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?

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