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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 "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?
(a) Being loved.
(b) Being dead.
(c) Being lonely.
(d) Being heard.

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?
(a) The soul.
(b) Providence.
(c) Contemplation.
(d) God's grace.

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," how does the tone shift with the image of the speaker looking out the window?
(a) It becomes darker and lonelier.
(b) It becomes more buoyant with desire.
(c) It becomes more objectively intellectual.
(d) It becomes angrier and more strident.

4. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?
(a) Solemn.
(b) Macabre.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Mordant.

5. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) The battle against erasure.
(b) Her relationship with her brother.
(c) Her relationship with her lover.
(d) The struggle for Native sovereignty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," which religion's god is alluded to in the line "didn't you sing out their ninety-nine names?" (8)?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

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