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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. What unusual typographic device is contained in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) Call-out.
(b) Redaction.
(c) Hedera.
(d) Implied ephemera.

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?
(a) He develops a chronic injury.
(b) He develops a substance use disorder.
(c) He starts spending more time with his girlfriend.
(d) He gets more involved with his job and adult responsibilities.

3. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?
(a) Macabre.
(b) Solemn.
(c) Mordant.
(d) Ambivalent.

4. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Apologia.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Double entente.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
(a) It stands for the "world" that education can open to underprivileged children.
(b) It stands for the barriers life puts in the way of poor Indian children.
(c) It stands for adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.
(d) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Like Church," the speaker uses the Spanish term of endearment "Mi caracol" (29). What is the literal translation of this expression?

2. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?

3. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

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

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