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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 kind of animal does Atwood equate with human souls in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Mice.
(b) Birds.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

2. Why does the speaker in the poem "Salt" say it is tempting to "look back"?
(a) There were a lot more animals back there than there are now.
(b) It is glittery and pretty back there.
(c) There are only two colors back there.
(d) It is worse than it is now.

3. Who looks like a movie star in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Only moviestars.
(b) No one.
(c) Gymnasts.
(d) Rich people.

4. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Will this be a good thing or a bad thing?
(b) What happened?
(c) Did I do that?
(d) Was it a flood?

5. What does the cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Claws at the bedroom door waiting to be let in.
(b) Refuses to drink even milk.
(c) Kills the fish in the tank.
(d) Eats too much tuna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

2. What does Cassandra fantasize about possessing in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

3. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?

4. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

5. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would be the advantage to slugs reproducing by bud or spore, according to Atwood in "Double-Entry Slug Sex"?

2. What kinds of stories did the people used to tell in the poem "The Dear Ones?"

3. What are some contradictions about cicadas in the poem by the same title?

4. In the poem "Salt," what does Atwood warn will happen if one spends too much time in the past?

5. In the poem "Health Class (1953)," why does the teacher scare the students?

6. What does Atwood compare "late poems" to in the poem by the same title?

7. How do the murdered sisters die in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

8. How does the speaker in the poem "Passports" feel about aging?

9. In the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday," where does Frida Kahlo live on?

10. What gift does Cassandra have in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

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