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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" through "The First Water Is the Body".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?
(a) Broken glass.
(b) Spoiled milk.
(c) Spilled milk.
(d) Broken ice.

2. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A transparent salt.
(b) A polished fossil.
(c) A black mineral.
(d) A porous rock.

3. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Make someone fall in love with you.
(b) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.
(c) Predict the weather.
(d) Help you find your way home.

4. 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)?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Hyperbaton.

5. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?
(a) This is how the acronym for "missing in action" is made plural in Spanish.
(b) To indicate more than one exclamation.
(c) The mother of someone named "Mia" is being discussed.
(d) More than one mother is being discussed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?

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

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

4. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?

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

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