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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 do plastics make "clear as whistling" in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Voices over telephones.
(b) Visions seen through plastic contact lenses.
(c) Songs in microphones.
(d) Visions seen through plastic glasses lenses.

2. What new type of era does the speaker in "Plasticene Suite" define?
(a) The Plasticene.
(b) The Genocene.
(c) The Moderncene.
(d) The Glycoblast.

3. What does the plastic "rock" look like in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Blue and yellow.
(b) Black and striped and slippery.
(c) Purple and striated.
(d) Red.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

2. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?

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

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

5. How can one tell a wolf's mood in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the main message in "Heart of the Arctic"?

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

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

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

7. Why does the speaker insinuate people are so desperate for rain in the poem "Tracking the Rain"?

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

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

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

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