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

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?
(a) Prometheus and Hecatonchire.
(b) The speaker and the beloved.
(c) The speaker's hands.
(d) The Mojave gods who created humans.

3. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Crayfish.
(b) Knitting needles.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Chopsticks.

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) "The opened-gold field."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) The "glide of the hand."
(d) "Skin-Light."

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

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

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

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