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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 is one of the problems with the body in the poem "Shadow"?
(a) It is weak.
(b) It is fickle.
(c) It attracts too much attention.
(d) It is liable to become ill.

2. What made a comeback for people to buy after the war in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Milk.

3. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

4. What are the minds of the jack-o-lanterns filled with in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) Horror.
(b) Nothing but flame.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Stories.

5. What question does the speaker wonder about her dead sister in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) If the dead sister will live on in dreams.
(b) If the dead sister's soul is at peace.
(c) If the dead sister would forgive her murderer or not.
(d) If the dead sister wanted to have children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?

3. What is caught in the glare of your stare in the poem "Betrayal"?

4. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

5. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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