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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 25 - 51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Snow.
(b) Fireflies.
(c) Teardrops.
(d) Ash.

2. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
(a) Like a photo album.
(b) Like a movie.
(c) Like a diagram.
(d) Like a picnic.

3. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Her own sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her murderer.
(d) Her soul.

4. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn down the bedcovers.
(b) Turn up the radio.
(c) Turn up the light.
(d) Turn down the music.

5. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?
(a) A fern.
(b) A comma.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?

2. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

3. What is the sister who is no longer there, now that she is gone, in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

5. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

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