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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 everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Trying.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Calm.
(d) Impossible.

2. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

3. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The fiction that all family ties are strong.
(b) The fiction that you can live forever.
(c) The fiction that this one likes you.
(d) The fiction that anyone is owed anything in life.

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

5. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Snow.
(b) Ash.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Teardrops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the speaker's passports photos remind her of in the poem "Passports"?

2. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

3. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?

4. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?

5. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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