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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 "The First Water Is the Body," whom does the speaker call "The only red people I've ever seen" (46)?
(a) Communists.
(b) Sunburned tourists.
(c) Embarrassed politicians.
(d) The Mojave.

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

3. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?
(a) Pablo Neruda.
(b) Federico García Lorca.
(c) Octavio Paz.
(d) Rosalía de Castro.

4. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(b) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.
(c) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(d) It uses ballad meter.

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 angrier and more strident.
(b) It becomes more objectively intellectual.
(c) It becomes more buoyant with desire.
(d) It becomes darker and lonelier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied in "Postcolonial Love Poem's" allusion to the wars "which started me, which I lost and won"?

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is a "traje de luces"?

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