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

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 ill.
(c) She had just lost her home in a flood.
(d) She was immersed elsewhere.

3. What kind of animal does Atwood equate with human souls in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Mice.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Birds.
(d) Cats.

4. What does the robot look like in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?
(a) It looks just like a human being.
(b) It looks like an octopus.
(c) It is scary, like a monster.
(d) It has a dollface.

5. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Rock.
(b) Sea.
(c) Shallows.
(d) Tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?

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

3. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?

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

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

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