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

2. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For the birds to be set free.
(b) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(c) For summer to start again.
(d) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.

3. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) The dawn.
(b) The rage.
(c) The mystery.
(d) The sorrow.

4. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Pins.
(b) Doors.
(c) Screws.
(d) Tiny frogs.

5. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is the mark of poverty.
(b) It is brown.
(c) It is crackly.
(d) It is soft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has killed so many sisters over the years in Part 6 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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

3. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. What does the speaker imagine the cicadas' song is saying in the poem "Cicadas"?

5. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

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

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

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

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

7. What does the speaker in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" think about everyone else's sex life?

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

9. In the poem "Aflame," what is happening to the world?

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

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