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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do hearts do in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Change.
(b) Stop.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Bleed.
2. What made a comeback for people to buy after the war in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Milk.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Chocolate.
3. Who were the scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) Warrior women and dagger girls.
(b) Servants.
(c) Kings.
(d) Queens.
4. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?
(a) Hollowed eggs.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Books.
(d) Plastics.
5. Why does the speaker in the poem "Salt" say it is tempting to "look back"?
(a) It is worse than it is now.
(b) There were a lot more animals back there than there are now.
(c) There are only two colors back there.
(d) It is glittery and pretty back there.
6. What happens if one "looks behind" in the poem "Salt"?
(a) He turns to stone.
(b) He turns to marshmallow.
(c) He turns to salt.
(d) His hair falls out.
7. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) Are you in pain?
(c) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(d) Can you see the sunset, still?
8. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.
9. What lies in the ditch in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Money.
(b) Ripped clothes.
(c) A woman's torso.
(d) A dead skunk.
10. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) If the dead sister will live on in dreams.
(b) If the dead sister wanted to have children.
(c) If the dead sister's soul is at peace.
(d) If the dead sister would forgive her murderer or not.
11. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is soft.
(b) It is brown.
(c) It is the mark of poverty.
(d) It is crackly.
12. Who looks like a movie star in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Rich people.
(b) Gymnasts.
(c) No one.
(d) Only moviestars.
13. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) An old friend.
(b) A cat.
(c) A letter from a sailor that arrives after he has drowned.
(d) The past.
14. What color does Cassandra want to dye her hair in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blond.
15. Which of the following comparisons does Atwood use for late poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Being late for a wedding.
(b) Being late for a communion.
(c) Being late for a funeral.
(d) Being late for supper.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the drone seem to wonder in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
2. Why, if victorious, did the scythians fight in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
3. What fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
4. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?
5. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
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