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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Doors.
(b) Tiny frogs.
(c) Screws.
(d) Pins.

3. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.

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

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

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

7. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Teardrops.
(b) Snow.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Ash.

8. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?
(a) She was ill.
(b) She had just lost her home in a flood.
(c) She was immersed elsewhere.
(d) She was scared of the mushrooms.

9. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Beware.
(b) Bombs Away!
(c) Help!
(d) Love! This Way! In!

10. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
(a) A three-ring circus.
(b) A barn.
(c) A dance.
(d) A kitchen.

11. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Life.
(b) Sunset.
(c) Desire.
(d) Death.

12. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Most poems are late.
(b) Most poems are sad.
(c) Most poems are from the future.
(d) Most poems are early.

13. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Shrouds.
(b) Sheets.
(c) Towels.
(d) Dresses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people give others souvenirs from vacations in the poem "Souvenir"?

2. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?

3. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?

4. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?

5. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

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