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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 78 - 100).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?
(a) Future.
(b) Past.
(c) Present.
(d) Imperfect.

3. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They eat all the humans.
(b) They drown all the humans.
(c) They take all the humans back to their planets.
(d) They put humans in zoos and watch them have sex all day.

4. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) The march of time.
(b) Waned flesh.
(c) How to heal the sick.
(d) How fickle humans are.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the problems with the body in the poem "Shadow"?

2. Who has killed so many sisters over the years in Part 6 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

3. What happens when the gods frown in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

4. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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