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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 other poet is alluded to?
(a) Federico García Lorca.
(b) Octavio Paz.
(c) Rosalía de Castro.
(d) Pablo Neruda.

2. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Getting shot.
(b) Capturing an escaped dog.
(c) Working in a mine.
(d) Playing a game with pennies.

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

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(b) The wise women who control fate.
(c) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(d) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?

2. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?

3. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?

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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