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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 "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?
(a) A traffic accident.
(b) Fabric.
(c) Wind.
(d) A headache.

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

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

4. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A coyote.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A bull.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It portrays them as underdogs.
(b) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(c) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(d) It foreshadows the poem's ending.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?

3. 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)?

4. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?

5. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?

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