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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "I, Minotaur" through "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Follow the animals.
(b) Read the inscription on the wood.
(c) Throw out the piece of wood.
(d) Call her brother's doctor.

2. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) "The opened-gold field."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) "Skin-Light."
(d) The "glide of the hand."

3. In "Asterion's Lament," what kind of a creature is "Asterion"?
(a) Half-bull and half-human.
(b) Half-bird and half-human.
(c) Half-fish and half-human.
(d) Half-snake and half-human.

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her friend.

5. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?
(a) "What question can I ask of the thing I am"? (57)
(b) "You've heard me churn and later, yet knock and enter" (56).
(c) "For what erupts my badlands and my tired eyes in beauty" (56).
(d) "All that I have done and failed to do" (57).

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

2. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?

4. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?

5. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?

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