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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 52 - 77).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) What happened?
(b) Will this be a good thing or a bad thing?
(c) Did I do that?
(d) Was it a flood?

2. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?
(a) She was scared of the mushrooms.
(b) She was immersed elsewhere.
(c) She was ill.
(d) She had just lost her home in a flood.

3. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She faints.
(c) She screams.
(d) She falls asleep.

4. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) The stories.
(b) The darkness.
(c) The work of our knives.
(d) The songs.

5. What is one of the problems with the body in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) It attracts too much attention.
(b) It is fickle.
(c) It is weak.
(d) It is liable to become ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?

2. What happens in Part IV of "The Aliens Arrive"?

3. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?

4. What lies in the ditch in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

5. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?

(see the answer key)

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