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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 "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) "The opened-gold field."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) The "glide of the hand."
(d) "Skin-Light."

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

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?
(a) Her intimate relationship with a White lover.
(b) Her relationship with her family.
(c) America's history of oppression.
(d) The work required to tend a garden successfully.

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Thread."
(b) "Jet."
(c) "Holy."
(d) "Map."

5. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?
(a) With apathy.
(b) With anger.
(c) With amusement.
(d) With awe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," why does the speaker take her brother's call?

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

3. 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"?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

5. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?

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