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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word" through "Run'n'Gun".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
(a) It refers to the poem "Sleep and Poetry."
(b) It refers to a character from the movie Sleepwalking.
(c) It refers to the poem "Romance Sonámbulo."
(d) It refers to a character from the novel Intemperie.

2. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Double entendre.

3. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metonymy.

4. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A smoothed and polished stone.
(b) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?
(a) Lacross.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Baseball.
(d) An ancient Mesoamerican ball game.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?

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

3. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

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)?

5. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?

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