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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 "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what object does the speaker compare her camera?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A gun.
(c) A poem.
(d) A mirror.

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone who understands her.
(b) Someone long dead.
(c) Someone who is not American.
(d) Someone white.

3. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Airplane.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Subway train.

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) The struggle for Native sovereignty.
(b) Her relationship with her brother.
(c) The battle against erasure.
(d) Her relationship with her lover.

5. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?
(a) Damming it.
(b) Becoming alienated from it.
(c) Forgetting its original name.
(d) Polluting it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?

2. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?

3. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?

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