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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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?
(a) Louisa May Alcott.
(b) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It portrays them as underdogs.
(b) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(c) It foreshadows the poem's ending.
(d) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The line connecting stars in a constellation.
(b) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.
(c) The Colorado River.
(d) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific product's logo does the speaker mention?
(a) Land O' Lakes Butter.
(b) Calumet Baking Powder.
(c) Eskimo Pie.
(d) Indian Motorcycle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

2. In "The First Water Is the Body," what protest does the speaker mention?

3. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," the speaker describes something as "Maenad." What is this a reference to?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?

5. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?

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