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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. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?
(a) The "dunes of your hips" and "long thirst."
(b) "Instinct" and "desire."
(c) "A same wilding path" and "wolf naps."
(d) "Tracking" and "cameras."

2. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?
(a) "The walls" (59).
(b) "The walkway" (59).
(c) "The girl" (59).
(d) ""The wood" (59).

3. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker claim causes the milky appearance of the galaxy?
(a) Sparks from the sun.
(b) The movement of fish.
(c) Dust from the moon.
(d) The quivering of her lover's body.

4. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?
(a) Needles, California.
(b) Willow Valley, Arizona.
(c) Golden Shores, Arizona.
(d) Mountain Pass, California.

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," how does the tone shift with the image of the speaker looking out the window?
(a) It becomes darker and lonelier.
(b) It becomes angrier and more strident.
(c) It becomes more buoyant with desire.
(d) It becomes more objectively intellectual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "exhibits from The American Water Museum" warn that you "cannot drink" (69)?

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

4. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?

5. In "Asterion's Lament," what kind of a creature is "Asterion"?

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