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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 does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her soul.
(c) Her murderer.
(d) Her own sister.

2. Why does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" miss the mushrooms again this year?
(a) She was scared of the mushrooms.
(b) She was immersed elsewhere.
(c) She had just lost her home in a flood.
(d) She was ill.

3. What was wool worn next to the skin once symbolic of in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Ceasefire.
(b) An army decree.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Poverty.

4. What does everyone else's sex life seem like in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Trying.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Fancy.

5. What happens to Cassandra's hometown in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?
(a) It flourishes.
(b) It is struck by lightening.
(c) It burns down.
(d) It is swept away in a flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

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

3. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

4. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Tin Woodwoman gets a massage in the poem by the same name?

2. How does the speaker in the poem "Passports" feel about aging?

3. What kind of world exists in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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

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

6. What gift does Cassandra have in the poem "Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift"?

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

8. Why should one avoid wearing cotton when making recordings, according to the poem "Princess Clothing"?

9. What kinds of stories did the people used to tell in the poem "The Dear Ones?"

10. Why do people carve jack-o-lanterns in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

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