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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 "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what power does the speaker ascribe to the air?
(a) The power to give life.
(b) The power to spread emotion from person to person.
(c) The power to tell us what we are.
(d) The power to dry out the land.

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 gets more involved with his job and adult responsibilities.
(d) He starts spending more time with his girlfriend.

3. In "I, Minotaur," the speaker uses the word "Minotauromachy." Where does this word come from?
(a) A Keats poem about a Grecian artifact.
(b) The contemporary YA series The Hunger Games.
(c) A Shakespearean play.
(d) A work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?
(a) Speak an unknown language.
(b) Preserve meat.
(c) Put bees to sleep.
(d) Fill the room.

5. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Meiosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

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 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?

5. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?

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