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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 103 - 122).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker and others leave behind them as they skim through time in "Winter Vacations"?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Muffin crumbs.
(d) Footprints.

2. What does "some idiot" wish for in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Fire.
(c) Salt.
(d) Wind.

3. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?
(a) Because we want them to.
(b) Because the sorcerers made it this way.
(c) Because the djinns want them to.
(d) Because God wills them to.

4. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Man.
(c) The Angel.
(d) God.

5. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

2. What does the spider catch in its net in "Spider Signatures"?

3. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?

4. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?

5. What do the new werewolves sing as they run through the world?

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