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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the albatross in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) It lets humans raise its young.
(b) It is killed by eating plastic.
(c) It thrives in the caves.
(d) It is killed by hunters.

2. What did the madman once love in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) The woodshed.
(b) This wildland.
(c) The fog.
(d) The peacock.

3. What do plastics make lighter for carrying water in "The Bright Side"?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Umbrellas.
(c) Buckets.
(d) Container ships.

4. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Plants.
(c) Oil.
(d) People.

5. What does "some idiot" wish for in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Wind.
(b) Fire.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Salt.

6. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) The Angel.
(b) The Devil.
(c) God.
(d) Man.

7. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?
(a) What song the sirens sang to lure so many sailors to their deaths.
(b) What kind of children the sirens have.
(c) What kind of creatures the sirens really are.
(d) What kind of music lessons the sirens had.

8. What does Rilke say poetry is in "Zombie"?
(a) The songs of our ancestors.
(b) The past that breaks out in our hearts.
(c) The future.
(d) The station.

9. What is the hard part in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Finding the sorcerer again.
(b) Finding money.
(c) Getting the right books.
(d) Getting the machine to stop.

10. Where does the spider really like to be in the house in "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Under the couch.
(b) Under the bookcase.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) On the windowsill.

11. What two things is "he" afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?
(a) Birds and zombies.
(b) Birds and trees.
(c) Birds and snow.
(d) Birds and guns.

12. What does the speaker say humans are in "Fatal Light Awareness"?
(a) A lost cause.
(b) A dying symphony.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A curse.

13. What is the robot designed to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?
(a) Eat like a human.
(b) Read.
(c) Write.
(d) Learn like a child.

14. What is happening to the world in "Aflame"?
(a) It is hurtling off of orbit.
(b) It is burning up.
(c) It is getting destroyed by microbes.
(d) It is drowning.

15. What happens in Part II of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They kill most of us, and a few are left alive after they leave.
(b) We go with them back to their own world.
(c) We eat some of their food, and it is good.
(d) We kill most of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?

2. What is the main problem with the plastics in the environment in "Plasticene Suite"?

3. What is the outdoor gear of the "darlings" like in "Heart of the Arctic"?

4. What do the ravens ask the people in "This Fjord Looks Like a Lake"?

5. Who is wrenched up by the sun in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

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