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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 speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Most poems are late.
(b) Most poems are sad.
(c) Most poems are early.
(d) Most poems are from the future.

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

3. Who used to take the dear ones in the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) Cats.
(b) Djinns.
(c) Religious wanderers.
(d) Gypsies.

4. What is the taste of the coconut mixed with in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) Avocado.
(b) Ash and the shards of destruction.
(c) Hay.
(d) Orange.

5. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?
(a) The park.
(b) Pizza restaurants.
(c) Funeral parlors.
(d) Other people's dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

2. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

3. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

5. What is caught in the glare of your stare in the poem "Betrayal"?

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 kind of world exists in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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

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

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

6. Why should one avoid wearing cotton when making recordings, according to the poem "Princess Clothing"?

7. What is the problem with souvenirs, according to the speaker in the poem by the same name?

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

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

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

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