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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. Who is in bed together in the poem "Betrayal"?
(a) Your cat.
(b) No one.
(c) Your spouse and your best friend's spouse.
(d) Your lover and your friend.

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

3. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) The tabby one.
(b) The black one.
(c) The white one.
(d) The calico.

4. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Violets.
(b) Tulips.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Roses.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the speaker drive into the soft eyes of the coconut in the poem "Coconut"?

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

4. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?

5. What was wool worn next to the skin once symbolic of in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Atwood use the ghost cat in the poem by the same titled to symbolize?

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

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

4. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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