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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 Rilke say poetry is in "Zombie"?
(a) The songs of our ancestors.
(b) The station.
(c) The past that breaks out in our hearts.
(d) The future.

2. What does the editor suggest letting people do in "Editorial Notes"?
(a) Use the library more.
(b) Come to their own conclusions.
(c) Buy their own books.
(d) Eat dinner whenever they want.

3. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
(a) Oil.
(b) People.
(c) Plants.
(d) Plastic.

4. What form does poetry "coming to claim you" take in "Zombie"?
(a) The hand on your shoulder.
(b) The rain in the window.
(c) The fire.
(d) The wind.

5. Where do "we gods" preside in "The Twilight of the Gods"?
(a) The colleges.
(b) The boardroom.
(c) Their own altar.
(d) The forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is easy in the poem "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

2. What format does Atwood use for the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?

3. In Part I of "The Aliens Arrive," what happens?

4. What season is it in "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

5. What will the baby sirens be "ravenous" with in "Siren Brooding on her Eggs"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the advantages of having a spider in the house in the poem "Spider Signatures"?

2. What does the speaker think about the world in the poem "Walking in the Madman's Wood"?

3. What are some of the speaker's worries in the poem "Oh Children"?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the "defining foliage of the oil age" in the poem "Foliage"?

10. What tense does not exist at the conference in the poem "At the Translation Conference" and why?

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