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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. 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.

2. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) A pool.
(b) A demented rose-red circus tent.
(c) An expensive house.
(d) A really good movie.

3. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?
(a) Hollowed eggs.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Plastics.
(d) Books.

4. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For the birds to be set free.
(b) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.
(c) For summer to start again.
(d) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.

5. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Never.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the ravens ask the people in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?

2. What does a wolf in pain admit in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

3. What does the cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

4. What are Kahlo's colors in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

5. What does Rilke say poetry is in "Zombie"?

(see the answer key)

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