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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 "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone white.
(b) Someone long dead.
(c) Someone who understands her.
(d) Someone who is not American.

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

3. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?
(a) It is a star that recently went super-nova.
(b) This is the proper name for the "North Star."
(c) It is one half of a "double" star.
(d) It is also called the "heart of the scorpion."

4. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"
(a) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.
(b) Her brother's motive for trying to stab her.
(c) How to tell her lover that she wants them to have a child.
(d) A way to communicate genuine joy.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
(a) It stands for the "world" that education can open to underprivileged children.
(b) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.
(c) It stands for adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.
(d) It stands for the barriers life puts in the way of poor Indian children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?

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

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," when the speaker claims to be the only Native person "on the 8th floor of this hotel or any," what technique is being used (14)?

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