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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.
2. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
(a) Like a photo album.
(b) Like a diagram.
(c) Like a movie.
(d) Like a picnic.
3. What does the cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Kills the fish in the tank.
(b) Claws at the bedroom door waiting to be let in.
(c) Refuses to drink even milk.
(d) Eats too much tuna.
4. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Dresses.
(b) Shrouds.
(c) Towels.
(d) Sheets.
5. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was wool worn next to the skin once symbolic of in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
2. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
3. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
4. Why does the speaker in the poem "Salt" say it is tempting to "look back"?
5. What is the taste of the coconut mixed with in the poem "Coconut"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do people carve jack-o-lanterns in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
2. What does Atwood compare "late poems" to in the poem by the same title?
3. What are some contradictions about cicadas in the poem by the same title?
4. How do the murdered sisters die in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
5. What are the images in tension with each other in the poem titled "A Genre Painting"?
6. Why does the speaker implore people to keep their clothes on in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
7. What gift does Cassandra have in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
8. In the poem "Aflame," what is happening to the world?
9. What does Atwood use the ghost cat in the poem by the same titled to symbolize?
10. What does the speaker's mother in the poem "Blizzard" fight?
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