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

2. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) Are you in pain?
(c) Can you see the sunset, still?
(d) If you were a song, what song would you be?

3. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?
(a) There is a broken cassette tape.
(b) There is a string.
(c) There is a cigarette butt.
(d) There is a plastic bag.

4. What kind of animal does Atwood equate with human souls in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Mice.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Birds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?

2. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?

3. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?

4. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

5. Why do people give others souvenirs from vacations in the poem "Souvenir"?

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