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

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

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?
(a) Know.
(b) Bite.
(c) Love.
(d) Howl.

4. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is personified as a woman?
(a) The train.
(b) The dust.
(c) The hawk.
(d) The air.

5. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?
(a) It is a clear yellow, but has green, blue, and pink occlusions.
(b) It is clear, with hues shifting from green to pink.
(c) It is a clouded and luminous orange.
(d) It is opaque, varying from red to orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?

3. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what power does the speaker ascribe to the air?

4. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

5. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" the use of the word "coppered" is an example of which literary technique (73)?

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