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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. When is every life a failure in "Feather"?
(a) At the last hour.
(b) At dusk.
(c) At dawn.
(d) At the apocalypse.
2. What does Yeats speak about loving in "Improvisations on a First Line by Yeats"?
(a) Sea breezes.
(b) Wind and rain.
(c) Bare hills and stunted trees.
(d) Bagels.
3. What crashes into the speaker's window in "Fatal Light Awareness"?
(a) A thrush.
(b) A deer.
(c) A skunk.
(d) A lion.
4. What is one advantage to plastics in the section of "Plasticene Suite" titled "The Bright Side"?
(a) We have more options for our cars.
(b) There is better scaffolding for buildings.
(c) Things like plastic flowers last so long.
(d) Humans do not really need all these animals around.
5. What is the defining foliage of the oil age in "Plasticene Suite"?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Rock.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Twigs.
Short Answer Questions
1. What will the baby sirens be "ravenous" with in "Siren Brooding on her Eggs"?
2. What keeps getting thrown out into the sea in our version of "Sorcerer's Apprentice"?
3. What kind of getups do the new werewolves wear in "Update on Werewolves"?
4. What do the aliens do to humans in Part 8 of "The Aliens Arrive"?
5. What is already dissolving in the shore water in "Heart of the Arctic"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Generally, how do the aliens act towards humans in the poem "The Aliens Arrive"?
2. What does the editor in the poem "Editorial Notes" suggest the speaker do for the readers?
3. In the poem "Fatal Light Awareness," what do we know that the birds do not?
4. What is the "defining foliage of the oil age" in the poem "Foliage"?
5. What is the "bright side" of the modern era in the poem by the same title?
6. What are the advantages of having a spider in the house in the poem "Spider Signatures"?
7. What are the two things "he" is afraid of in "Fear of Birds"?
8. What is the main message in "Heart of the Arctic"?
9. Why does the speaker insinuate people are so desperate for rain in the poem "Tracking the Rain"?
10. What does the siren wonder about in the poem "Siren Brooding on Her Eggs"?
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