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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A cat.
(b) An ill person.
(c) A child.
(d) A woman who has just been arrested.

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

3. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) Horror.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Stories.
(d) Nothing but flame.

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

5. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Can you see the sunset, still?
(b) Are you a flower or a well?
(c) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(d) Are you in pain?

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

7. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is soft.
(b) It is the mark of poverty.
(c) It is crackly.
(d) It is brown.

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

9. What does everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Trying.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Calm.

10. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The light fades away from day.
(b) Someone wants your body.
(c) Who has two?
(d) Be aware.

11. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?
(a) The speaker looks at the sunset.
(b) The speaker cries.
(c) This sister is not empty air any longer, she is there with the speaker.
(d) The speaker dies.

12. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) The rage.
(b) The mystery.
(c) The dawn.
(d) The sorrow.

13. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

14. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Warrior women and dagger girls.
(b) Servants.
(c) Kings.
(d) Queens.

15. What does the speaker drive into the soft eyes of the coconut in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) A pin.
(b) A paperclip.
(c) A rope.
(d) A long steel nail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

2. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?

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

4. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

5. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?

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