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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 103 - 122).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the editor ask the speaker to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Editor's Notes"?
(a) Pull back from exhortation and despair.
(b) Be clearer.
(c) Write about scary things.
(d) Write about sad things.

2. What is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Twigs.
(c) Rock.
(d) Leaves.

3. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) A cat.
(b) The past.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A letter from a sailor that arrives after he has drowned.

4. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Beware.
(b) Help!
(c) Love! This Way! In!
(d) Bombs Away!

5. What does the speaker fear the children will grow up without in "Oh Children"?
(a) Fathers.
(b) Birds.
(c) Social Media.
(d) Computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a problem in comic books in the poem "Invisible Man"?

2. What crashes into the speaker's window in "Fatal Light Awareness"?

3. What is already dissolving in the shore water in "Heart of the Arctic"?

4. Which people are at the far end of the table right next to the door in "At the Translation Conference"?

5. What happens in Part 7 of "The Aliens Arrive"?

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