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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were all the werewolves in the old days in "Update on Werewolves"?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Tired.
(d) Male.

2. Where does the spider really like to be in the house in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Under the bookcase.
(b) On the windowsill.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) Under the couch.

3. What is the cancelled word in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Madman.
(b) Last.
(c) Worsted.
(d) First.

4. How does the speaker in "Heart of the Arctic" know a careless person has been there?
(a) There is a plastic bag.
(b) There is a string.
(c) There is a broken cassette tape.
(d) There is a cigarette butt.

5. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They drown all the humans.
(b) They put humans in zoos and watch them have sex all day.
(c) They eat all the humans.
(d) They take all the humans back to their planets.

6. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?
(a) The whale carrying her dead calf.
(b) The shark carrying the fish.
(c) The person carrying the dead calf.
(d) The tangled birds in the sea.

7. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Never.

8. What does the plastic "rock" look like in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Blue and yellow.
(b) Purple and striated.
(c) Black and striped and slippery.
(d) Red.

9. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Perhaps.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Never.
(d) Yes.

10. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) She screams.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She faints.
(d) She vomits.

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

12. What form does poetry "coming to claim you" take in "Zombie"?
(a) The hand on your shoulder.
(b) The wind.
(c) The fire.
(d) The rain in the window.

13. Which people are at the far end of the table right next to the door in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) The wizards.
(b) Those who deal in hazards.
(c) The modernists.
(d) The priests.

14. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) Four haikus.
(b) Nine late-night movies.
(c) Ten vignettes.
(d) Eight one-line poems.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When is every life a failure in "Feather"?

3. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

4. What has been long-abandoned near the ponds in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?

5. What is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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