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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 do birds no longer need in "Mr. Lionheart"?
(a) Lost names.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Wind.
(d) Berries.

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

3. What does Cassandra fantasize about possessing in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) A sturdy staff.
(c) A dark blue leather purse.
(d) Many dresses.

4. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Change.
(b) Hurt.
(c) Bleed.
(d) Stop.

5. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The souls.
(c) The pebbles.
(d) The wind itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Atwood compare the subject of the poem "Blizzard" to?

2. Where does the spider really like to be in the house in "Spider Signatures"?

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

4. What happens to the albatross in "Plasticene Suite"?

5. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?

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