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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 kind of animal does Atwood equate with human souls in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

2. What happens when the speaker in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters" sings this song for her sister?
(a) This sister is not empty air any longer, she is there with the speaker.
(b) The speaker dies.
(c) The speaker looks at the sunset.
(d) The speaker cries.

3. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(c) Are you in pain?
(d) Can you see the sunset, still?

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

5. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) The black one.
(b) The tabby one.
(c) The white one.
(d) The calico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?

2. Where does the coconut "materialize" in the poem "Coconut"?

3. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?

4. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the images in tension with each other in the poem titled "A Genre Painting"?

2. What are some contradictions about cicadas in the poem by the same title?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

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

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

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

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