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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the spider dislike the floor in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) There are too many human feet there.
(b) It is too visible there.
(c) It is too cold there.
(d) It is too wet there.

2. What does the spider catch in its net in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Curses.
(b) Fog.
(c) Hair.
(d) Bad dreams.

3. What is the robot designed to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?
(a) Write.
(b) Read.
(c) Learn like a child.
(d) Eat like a human.

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

5. What happens to the albatross in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) It is killed by eating plastic.
(b) It lets humans raise its young.
(c) It thrives in the caves.
(d) It is killed by hunters.

6. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) Waned flesh.
(b) The march of time.
(c) How to heal the sick.
(d) How fickle humans are.

7. What happens when the gods frown in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) Humans get sick.
(b) The weather is bad.
(c) Humans lose knowledge.
(d) The days are longer.

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

9. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Plants.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Oil.
(d) People.

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

11. What is the main problem with the plastics in the environment in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) There is an overwhelming amount of them.
(b) People like to see them in nature too much.
(c) Animals like to use them to build homes.
(d) There are not enough of them.

12. What did the madman once love in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) The fog.
(b) This wildland.
(c) The peacock.
(d) The woodshed.

13. What is the outdoor gear of the "darlings" like in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Careless.
(b) Cheap.
(c) Matching.
(d) Expensive.

14. In what way is a wolf courteous in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Up to a point.
(b) In the formal sense.
(c) In the context of wolf culture.
(d) In the informal sense.

15. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Sea.
(b) Tree.
(c) Rock.
(d) Shallows.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were all the werewolves in the old days in "Update on Werewolves"?

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

4. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?

5. What kind of getups do the new werewolves wear in "Update on Werewolves"?

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