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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 happens in Part IV of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They kill us.
(b) We kill them.
(c) They turn us into flowers.
(d) We wonder if they are God.

2. Which of the following comparisons does Atwood use for late poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Being late for supper.
(b) Being late for a communion.
(c) Being late for a funeral.
(d) Being late for a wedding.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

2. What does the editor ask the speaker to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Editor's Notes"?

3. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?

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

5. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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