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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.
2. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Call the children to care for her.
(b) Turn the key and bar the window.
(c) Send her to a care home.
(d) Take care of her.
3. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) 25.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.
4. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.
5. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) It is swept away in a flood.
(b) It flourishes.
(c) It burns down.
(d) It is struck by lightening.
6. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.
(b) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(c) For the birds to be set free.
(d) For summer to start again.
7. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her soul.
(c) Her murderer.
(d) Her own sister.
8. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is crackly.
(b) It is the mark of poverty.
(c) It is brown.
(d) It is soft.
9. Which of the following comparisons does Atwood use for late poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Being late for a communion.
(b) Being late for a wedding.
(c) Being late for a funeral.
(d) Being late for supper.
10. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Change.
(b) Bleed.
(c) Stop.
(d) Hurt.
11. Who used to take the dear ones in the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) Religious wanderers.
(b) Gypsies.
(c) Cats.
(d) Djinns.
12. What could the speaker do to save her sister if this were a story in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Find the right prince.
(b) Give her a magic apple.
(c) Get a witch to cast a spell.
(d) Speak a magic charm to bring her back.
13. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) What happened?
(b) Will this be a good thing or a bad thing?
(c) Was it a flood?
(d) Did I do that?
14. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A mermaid doomed to appear onshore every five years.
(b) A person moving backwards in time.
(c) An ill person.
(d) A child.
15. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?
(a) Funeral parlors.
(b) The park.
(c) Pizza restaurants.
(d) Other people's dreams.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
2. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
3. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
4. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
5. Where does the coconut "materialize" in the poem "Coconut"?
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