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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. How does the defining foliage of the oil age differ from true foliage in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) It is rootless.
(b) It likes the wind.
(c) It is tough.
(d) It is red.

2. What does a wolf in pain admit in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Fear.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) Guilt.

3. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) How to heal the sick.
(b) The march of time.
(c) Waned flesh.
(d) How fickle humans are.

4. How can one tell a wolf's mood in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) By their growls.
(b) By their fur.
(c) By the direction of their ears.
(d) By their eyes.

5. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?
(a) As a quill pen.
(b) As a trumpet.
(c) As a calendar.
(d) As an ornament for jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

2. What do plastics make "clear as whistling" in "The Bright Side"?

3. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?

4. What does the spider catch in its net in "Spider Signatures"?

5. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker think about the world in the poem "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

2. What is the "bright side" of the modern era in the poem by the same title?

3. How does Atwood reimagine werewolves in the poem "Update on Werewolves"?

4. Generally, how do the aliens act towards humans in the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?

5. What should have been inside the dead bird instead of plastic in the poem "Midway Island Albatross"?

6. What are the advantages of having a spider in the house in the poem "Spider Signatures"?

7. What is the problem with plastics in the poem "Faint Hopes"?

8. What is the "defining foliage of the oil age" in the poem "Foliage"?

9. What have many humans lost, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

10. What tense does not exist at the conference in the poem "At the Translation Conference" and why?

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