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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Pins.
(b) Tiny frogs.
(c) Screws.
(d) Doors.

2. What is the sister who is no longer there, now that she is gone, in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) A painting in shadow.
(b) A song.
(c) An empty chair, or simply air.
(d) A memory.

3. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

4. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Longitude.
(c) Death.
(d) Failure.

5. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn down the music.
(b) Turn down the bedcovers.
(c) Turn up the radio.
(d) Turn up the light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Atwood compare late poems to in the poem "Late Poems"?

2. Why does the speaker in the poem "Salt" say it is tempting to "look back"?

3. What is the taste of the coconut mixed with in the poem "Coconut"?

4. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?

5. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of people were the Scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?

2. What does the speaker's mother in the poem "Blizzard" fight?

3. In the poem "Health Class (1953)," why does the teacher scare the students?

4. How do the murdered sisters die in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. In the poem "Salt," what does Atwood warn will happen if one spends too much time in the past?

6. What is the purpose of the mushrooms in the poem "September Mushrooms"?

7. What is the problem with souvenirs, according to the speaker in the poem by the same name?

8. What would be the advantage to slugs reproducing by bud or spore, according to Atwood in "Double-Entry Slug Sex"?

9. In the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday," where does Frida Kahlo live on?

10. In the poem "Aflame," what is happening to the world?

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