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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When is every life a failure in "Feather"?
(a) At dusk.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At the apocalypse.
(d) At the last hour.
2. 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.
3. What does the speaker fear the children will grow up without in "Oh Children"?
(a) Birds.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Social Media.
(d) Computers.
4. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Never.
(d) Perhaps.
5. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Plants.
(c) Oil.
(d) People.
6. What is the robot designed to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?
(a) Read.
(b) Eat like a human.
(c) Write.
(d) Learn like a child.
7. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) How to heal the sick.
(b) The march of time.
(c) Waned flesh.
(d) How fickle humans are.
8. What two things is "he" afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?
(a) Birds and snow.
(b) Birds and trees.
(c) Birds and guns.
(d) Birds and zombies.
9. What do plastics make lighter for carrying water in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Umbrellas.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Buckets.
(d) Container ships.
10. What is easy in the poem "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Finding a way home.
(b) Finding a way to the adventure.
(c) Getting the machine going.
(d) Getting help.
11. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The souls.
(c) The pebbles.
(d) The wind itself.
12. 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 modernists.
(d) The wizards.
13. What does the editor suggest letting people do in "Editorial Notes"?
(a) Come to their own conclusions.
(b) Eat dinner whenever they want.
(c) Buy their own books.
(d) Use the library more.
14. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?
(a) As an ornament for jewelry.
(b) As a calendar.
(c) As a trumpet.
(d) As a quill pen.
15. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?
(a) The tangled birds in the sea.
(b) The shark carrying the fish.
(c) The whale carrying her dead calf.
(d) The person carrying the dead calf.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?
2. What does the spider catch in its net in "Spider Signatures"?
3. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
4. What does the speaker wonder if the robot will do in "Little Robot"?
5. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
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