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

2. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Stop.
(b) Change.
(c) Bleed.
(d) Hurt.

3. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?
(a) Hail!
(b) Glory.
(c) Beware.
(d) Mercy.

4. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?
(a) That the teacher is stupid.
(b) That they will all be successful one day.
(c) That the teacher is kind.
(d) That the teacher is funny.

5. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Warrior women and dagger girls.
(b) Servants.
(c) Queens.
(d) Kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

2. Why were the old stories comforting in a way in the poem "The Dear Ones"?

3. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?

5. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Tin Woodwoman gets a massage in the poem by the same name?

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

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

4. What kind of people were the Scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?

5. Why does the speaker implore people to keep their clothes on in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

6. Why do people carve jack-o-lanterns in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

7. What are the images in tension with each other in the poem titled "A Genre Painting"?

8. What does the speaker's mother in the poem "Blizzard" fight?

9. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

10. What is the purpose of the mushrooms in the poem "September Mushrooms"?

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