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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Atwood compare the subject of the poem "Blizzard" to?
(a) A snow leopard.
(b) A diver plunged into a dangerous cave.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A deer.

2. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father.

3. What is caught in the glare of your stare in the poem "Betrayal"?
(a) The cat.
(b) Gauche flesh.
(c) Your child.
(d) The sunrise.

4. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Her own sister.
(b) Her murderer.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her soul.

5. What color does Cassandra want to dye her hair in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) Blond.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

6. Where is Frida Kahlo everywhere in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?
(a) In the pillow covers.
(b) In the river reflection.
(c) In the souvenir arcade.
(d) In the museums.

7. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

8. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The fiction that this one likes you.
(b) The fiction that anyone is owed anything in life.
(c) The fiction that you can live forever.
(d) The fiction that all family ties are strong.

9. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Through lowered lids.
(b) Through a glare.
(c) Aslant.
(d) Scheming.

10. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) The work of our knives.
(b) The stories.
(c) The darkness.
(d) The songs.

11. Who is in bed together in the poem "Betrayal"?
(a) Your spouse and your best friend's spouse.
(b) Your cat.
(c) No one.
(d) Your lover and your friend.

12. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn down the bedcovers.
(b) Turn up the radio.
(c) Turn up the light.
(d) Turn down the music.

13. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
(a) Like a diagram.
(b) Like a picnic.
(c) Like a photo album.
(d) Like a movie.

14. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
(a) A knife.
(b) A scissors.
(c) A gun.
(d) A woodworking tool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?

2. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?

3. What is the sister who is no longer there, now that she is gone, in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. Who used to take the dear ones in the poem "The Dear Ones"?

5. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

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