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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," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?
(a) Unripe, I love things unripe.
(b) Green, I love the green.
(c) Unripe, I want it unripe.
(d) Green, I want you green.

2. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bull.
(c) An owl.
(d) A cat.

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

4. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?
(a) Stones.
(b) Bruises.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Painting.

5. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?
(a) 1.4%.
(b) 2%.
(c) 1%.
(d) 0.8%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?

2. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

3. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?

4. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?

5. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?

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