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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the baby sirens be "ravenous" with in "Siren Brooding on her Eggs"?
(a) Appetite.
(b) Song.
(c) Desire.
(d) Swimming.

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

3. What is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?
(a) Oxidation.
(b) Water.
(c) Wind.
(d) Birds.

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

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

6. What does the speaker implore the rain to do in "Tracking the Rain"?
(a) Be kind.
(b) Stop.
(c) Let it come down.
(d) Flood the earth.

7. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?
(a) Because the sorcerers made it this way.
(b) Because we want them to.
(c) Because God wills them to.
(d) Because the djinns want them to.

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

9. What happens to whatever the Gods touch in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) It takes on a life of its own.
(b) It turns to dust.
(c) It turns red.
(d) It grows.

10. What is easy in the poem "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Finding a way home.
(b) Getting help.
(c) Finding a way to the adventure.
(d) Getting the machine going.

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

12. What is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Finding money.
(b) Getting the right books.
(c) Finding the sorcerer again.
(d) Getting the machine to stop.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?

3. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?

4. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?

5. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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