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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 one feature of happy dreams of wolves in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) The tender bones of stupid caribou.
(b) Humans.
(c) Trees.
(d) Zombies.

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

3. What is one thing that has been done with old plastics in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Turning it into rock.
(b) Turning it into medicine.
(c) Turning it into oil.
(d) Turning it into solar energy.

4. What does the speaker implore the rain to do in "Tracking the Rain"?
(a) Stop.
(b) Let it come down.
(c) Be kind.
(d) Flood the earth.

5. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?
(a) A dying symphony.
(b) A miracle.
(c) A lost cause.
(d) A curse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?

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

3. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?

4. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?

5. What do people say instead of "no" in "At the Translation Conference"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the siren wonder about in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

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

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

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

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