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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 happens in Part V of "The Aliens Arrive"?
(a) They teach us how to travel to other galaxies.
(b) They make their way out of our bodies through our armpits.
(c) They learn to live peacefully with us on eart.
(d) They show us all their recipes.

2. What two things is "he" afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?
(a) Birds and guns.
(b) Birds and snow.
(c) Birds and trees.
(d) Birds and zombies.

3. What does the speaker use a feather for in "Feather"?
(a) As a calendar.
(b) As a quill pen.
(c) As an ornament for jewelry.
(d) As a trumpet.

4. What does "some idiot" wish for in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Salt.
(c) Wind.
(d) Fire.

5. What new type of era does the speaker in "Plasticene Suite" define?
(a) The Genocene.
(b) The Moderncene.
(c) The Glycoblast.
(d) The Plasticene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did everything once have, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

2. What is the robot designed to do in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "Little Robot"?

3. What does the speaker implore the rain to do in "Tracking the Rain"?

4. What is one feature of happy dreams of wolves in "Short Takes on Wolves"?

5. What tense does not exist at the conference in "Translator's Conference"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two things "he" is afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?

2. What have many humans lost, according to the speaker in "Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats"?

3. What does the editor in the poem "Editorial Notes" suggest the speaker do for the readers?

4. What does the speaker in the poem "Little Robot" worry the robot might do?

5. What is the problem in the old story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the poem by the same name?

6. What is the "bright side" of the modern era in the poem by the same title?

7. What does the siren wonder about in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?

8. What can one tell by a wolf's ears in the poem "Short Takes on Wolves"?

9. What is the problem with plastics in the poem "Faint Hopes"?

10. Why does the speaker insinuate people are so desperate for rain in the poem "Tracking the Rain"?

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