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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 "How the Milky Way Was Made," how many dams does the speaker say "shatter" the Colorado (61)?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 11.

2. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?
(a) A window.
(b) An orchard.
(c) The quarter moon.
(d) A searchlight.

3. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?
(a) Its power.
(b) Its fertility.
(c) Its beauty.
(d) Its spirituality.

4. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?
(a) Painting.
(b) Bruises.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Stones.

5. What does "exhibits from The American Water Museum" warn that you "cannot drink" (69)?
(a) Money.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Dust.
(d) Flint's water.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," when the speaker claims to be the only Native person "on the 8th floor of this hotel or any," what technique is being used (14)?

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?

3. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," why is the word "Maps" in quotation marks?

5. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?

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