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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?
(a) They are small and weak, so we kill them.
(b) They look like us, so we accept them.
(c) They die in our atmosphere.
(d) They are smarter than us, and carnivorous - you know the rest.

2. When is every life a failure in "Feather"?
(a) At the apocalypse.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At dusk.
(d) At the last hour.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) Bagels.
(b) Sea breezes.
(c) Wind and rain.
(d) Bare hills and stunted trees.

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

10. What do plastics make "clear as whistling" in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Voices over telephones.
(b) Visions seen through plastic glasses lenses.
(c) Visions seen through plastic contact lenses.
(d) Songs in microphones.

11. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?
(a) Past.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Present.
(d) Future.

12. What has been long-abandoned near the ponds in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) Birds.
(b) Reason.
(c) Books.
(d) Graves.

13. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?

2. What happens when the gods frown in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

3. What do wolf nightmares involve in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

4. Where does the spider really like to be in the house in "Spider Signatures"?

5. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

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