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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 does the speaker wonder if the robot will do in "Little Robot"?
(a) Find a cure for illnesses that afflict humans.
(b) Treat humans well.
(c) Learn to love.
(d) Find out the secret to life.

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

3. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?
(a) The whale carrying her dead calf.
(b) The shark carrying the fish.
(c) The tangled birds in the sea.
(d) The person carrying the dead calf.

4. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) The souls.
(b) The wind itself.
(c) The sea.
(d) The pebbles.

5. What is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Rock.
(b) Twigs.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Plastic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What play on words does Atwood introduce in the poem "Plasticene Suite"?

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

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