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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "I, Minotaur" through "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From its context in "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what can be assumed about the Hotchkiss and Springfield Model 1873?
(a) It is a type of railroad engine.
(b) It is a type of basketball.
(c) It is one of the first sources of outdoor electric light.
(d) It is a U.S. Cavalry weapon.

2. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Parallelism.

3. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?
(a) "A same wilding path" and "wolf naps."
(b) "Instinct" and "desire."
(c) The "dunes of your hips" and "long thirst."
(d) "Tracking" and "cameras."

4. 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) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

2. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?

3. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?

4. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?

5. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?

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