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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What were all the werewolves in the old days in "Update on Werewolves"?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Male.
(d) Tired.

7. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

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

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

10. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?
(a) They are small and weak, so we kill them.
(b) They are smarter than us, and carnivorous - you know the rest.
(c) They look like us, so we accept them.
(d) They die in our atmosphere.

11. What do the leaves in the garden remind the speaker of in "Tracking the Rain"?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Nylon.
(c) Silk.
(d) Antique taffeta.

12. What new type of era does the speaker in "Plasticene Suite" define?
(a) The Genocene.
(b) The Plasticene.
(c) The Glycoblast.
(d) The Moderncene.

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

14. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) Nine late-night movies.
(b) Four haikus.
(c) Ten vignettes.
(d) Eight one-line poems.

15. What is one feature of happy dreams of wolves in "Short Takes on Wolves"?
(a) Zombies.
(b) Humans.
(c) Trees.
(d) The tender bones of stupid caribou.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?

2. What is the cancelled word in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

3. What do the humans wonder about the siren in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

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

5. What is one advantage to plastics in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "The Bright Side"?

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