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

2. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) Nine late-night movies.
(b) Ten vignettes.
(c) Four haikus.
(d) Eight one-line poems.

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

4. What does the robot look like in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?
(a) It is scary, like a monster.
(b) It has a dollface.
(c) It looks like an octopus.
(d) It looks just like a human being.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do such tales end in flames in "Aflame"?

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

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

4. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the relationship between zombies and the past in Atwood's poem "Zombie"?

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

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

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

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

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