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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 tangled birds in the sea.
(d) The person carrying the dead calf.

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

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

4. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They eat all the humans.
(b) They drown all the humans.
(c) They put humans in zoos and watch them have sex all day.
(d) They take all the humans back to their planets.

5. What does the editor suggest letting people do in "Editorial Notes"?
(a) Eat dinner whenever they want.
(b) Come to their own conclusions.
(c) Buy their own books.
(d) Use the library more.

6. What does the bear go, or turn into, in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Tree.
(b) Sea.
(c) Rock.
(d) Shallows.

7. What do we hear in the wind's plainsong at the end of "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) The souls.
(b) The pebbles.
(c) The wind itself.
(d) The sea.

8. What is the outdoor gear of the "darlings" like in "Heart of the Arctic"?
(a) Careless.
(b) Matching.
(c) Cheap.
(d) Expensive.

9. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) The boardroom.
(b) Their own altar.
(c) The forest.
(d) The colleges.

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

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

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

13. What is it bad luck to do in the poem "Spider Signatures"?
(a) Feed a spider to the birds.
(b) Name a spider.
(c) Kill a spider in the house.
(d) Eat a spider.

14. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?
(a) As a quill pen.
(b) As an ornament for jewelry.
(c) As a trumpet.
(d) As a calendar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a human comes across the spider too suddenly in "Spider Signatures"?

2. What did everything once have, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

3. What is the scent of autumn like in "Aflame"?

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

5. Who makes the machine in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

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