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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 do wolf nightmares involve in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Trees.
(b) Zombies.
(c) Cars.
(d) Rabbits.

2. 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.

3. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?
(a) Roses.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Violets.
(d) Tulips.

4. What do the ravens understand in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?
(a) Waned flesh.
(b) How fickle humans are.
(c) How to heal the sick.
(d) The march of time.

5. What does everyone cry when they see in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Whales"?
(a) The whale carrying her dead calf.
(b) The shark carrying the fish.
(c) The person carrying the dead calf.
(d) The tangled birds in the sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of clothing did werewolves used to wear in "Update on Werewolves"?

2. How does the defining foliage of the oil age differ from true foliage in "Plasticene Suite"?

3. Why were the old stories comforting in a way in the poem "The Dear Ones"?

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

5. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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