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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 color does Cassandra want to dye her hair in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) Blond.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

2. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) Sea breezes.
(b) Bare hills and stunted trees.
(c) Bagels.
(d) Wind and rain.

3. What happens when the gods frown in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) The weather is bad.
(b) The days are longer.
(c) Humans lose knowledge.
(d) Humans get sick.

4. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?
(a) A child.
(b) A cat.
(c) An ill person.
(d) A woman who has just been arrested.

5. What could the speaker do to save her sister if this were a story in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Get a witch to cast a spell.
(b) Speak a magic charm to bring her back.
(c) Find the right prince.
(d) Give her a magic apple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker imagine the cicadas' song is saying in the poem "Cicadas"?

2. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

3. What do women not say on this side of the table in "At the Translation Conference"?

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

5. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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