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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 is the main problem with the plastics in the environment in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Animals like to use them to build homes.
(b) People like to see them in nature too much.
(c) There is an overwhelming amount of them.
(d) There are not enough of them.

2. What does the spider catch in its net in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Curses.
(b) Bad dreams.
(c) Hair.
(d) Fog.

3. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?
(a) Because we want them to.
(b) Because the djinns want them to.
(c) Because God wills them to.
(d) Because the sorcerers made it this way.

4. What form does poetry "coming to claim you" take in "Zombie"?
(a) The wind.
(b) The fire.
(c) The rain in the window.
(d) The hand on your shoulder.

5. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They kill most of us, and a few are left alive after they leave.
(b) We go with them back to their own world.
(c) We eat some of their food, and it is good.
(d) We kill most of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?

2. What is the robot designed to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?

3. What do the new werewolves sing as they run through the world?

4. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?

5. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the poem "Fatal Light Awareness," what do we know that the birds do not?

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

3. What is the problem in the old story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the poem by the same name?

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

5. What does the speaker in the poem "Little Robot" worry the robot might do?

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

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

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

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

10. What are the two things "he" is afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?

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