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

2. What color does Cassandra want to dye her hair in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) Blond.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

3. Who is wrenched up by the sun in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Peter.
(d) Hepaticas.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?

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

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

4. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

5. Who looks like a movie star in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

(see the answer key)

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