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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 fiction does Atwood write of in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) The fiction that anyone is owed anything in life.
(b) The fiction that you can live forever.
(c) The fiction that this one likes you.
(d) The fiction that all family ties are strong.

2. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Help!
(b) Beware.
(c) Bombs Away!
(d) Love! This Way! In!

3. 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.

4. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

5. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) The darkness.
(b) The songs.
(c) The stories.
(d) The work of our knives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?

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

3. What does Atwood compare being in love to in "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

4. What is one of the problems with the body in the poem "Shadow"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" think about everyone else's sex life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

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