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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 keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Oil.
(b) People.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Plants.

2. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?
(a) What kind of children the sirens have.
(b) What kind of creatures the sirens really are.
(c) What kind of music lessons the sirens had.
(d) What song the sirens sang to lure so many sailors to their deaths.

3. What did everything once have, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) A window into morality.
(b) A dark side.
(c) A soul.
(d) A right to live.

4. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) God.
(b) The Devil.
(c) The Angel.
(d) Man.

5. What is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?
(a) Birds.
(b) Oxidation.
(c) Water.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main problem with the plastics in the environment in "Plasticene Suite"?

2. What is easy in the poem "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

3. What does "some idiot" wish for in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

4. What is happening to the world in "Aflame"?

5. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What can one tell by a wolf's ears in the poem "Short Takes on Wolves"?

3. What does the editor in the poem "Editorial Notes" suggest the speaker do for the readers?

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

5. How does the speaker in the poem "Feather" make sure not to waste?

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

7. What are some of the speaker's worries in the poem "Oh Children"?

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

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

10. In quoting Rilke, what does Atwood say about poetry?

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