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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 does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) A demented rose-red circus tent.
(b) An expensive house.
(c) A pool.
(d) A really good movie.

2. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Warrior women and dagger girls.
(b) Servants.
(c) Queens.
(d) Kings.

3. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(c) Are you in pain?
(d) Can you see the sunset, still?

4. What do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?
(a) Pearls.
(b) Curls of hair from children or lovers.
(c) Paintbrushes.
(d) Chocolates.

5. What does everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Fancy.
(b) Calm.
(c) Trying.
(d) Impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?

2. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?

3. What does the speaker drive into the soft eyes of the coconut in the poem "Coconut"?

4. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?

5. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

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