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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in Part IV of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) We wonder if they are God.
(b) They kill us.
(c) They turn us into flowers.
(d) We kill them.

2. What new type of era does the speaker in "Plasticene Suite" define?
(a) The Genocene.
(b) The Glycoblast.
(c) The Plasticene.
(d) The Moderncene.

3. What did everything once have, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) A dark side.
(b) A soul.
(c) A right to live.
(d) A window into morality.

4. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They make their way out of our bodies through our armpits.
(b) They show us all their recipes.
(c) They learn to live peacefully with us on eart.
(d) They teach us how to travel to other galaxies.

5. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?
(a) As a quill pen.
(b) As a trumpet.
(c) As an ornament for jewelry.
(d) As a calendar.

6. What does a wolf in pain admit in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Fear.
(d) Everything.

7. What do plastics make lighter for carrying water in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Container ships.
(c) Buckets.
(d) Umbrellas.

8. What does Rilke say poetry is in "Zombie"?
(a) The future.
(b) The station.
(c) The past that breaks out in our hearts.
(d) The songs of our ancestors.

9. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) Their own altar.
(b) The forest.
(c) The boardroom.
(d) The colleges.

10. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?
(a) A lost cause.
(b) A dying symphony.
(c) A curse.
(d) A miracle.

11. Who is wrenched up by the sun in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Peter.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Wendy.
(d) Hepaticas.

12. What do the new werewolves sing as they run through the world?
(a) Wind and rain!
(b) Belle dame!
(c) Freedom and power!
(d) Find me now!

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

14. How do the feathers fall in "Feather"?
(a) One at a time.
(b) Only by handfuls.
(c) Like the wind.
(d) Like a rainstorm.

15. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) We go with them back to their own world.
(b) We eat some of their food, and it is good.
(c) They kill most of us, and a few are left alive after they leave.
(d) We kill most of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker fear the children will grow up without in "Oh Children"?

2. Where are we living now, according to the speaker in "Tracking the Rain"?

3. What does the speaker wonder if the robot will do in "Little Robot"?

4. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

5. What is already dissolving in the shore water in "Heart of the Arctic"?

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