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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. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Follow the animals.
(b) Call her brother's doctor.
(c) Throw out the piece of wood.
(d) Read the inscription on the wood.

2. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Danger.
(b) Enormity.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Crumbling away.

3. 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.

4. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A train.
(c) A carnivorous plant.
(d) A jaguar.

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that Indian sweat smells like?
(a) Grape juice and Air Jordans.
(b) Tortillas and Pine-Sol.
(c) Airplane glue and potato chips.
(d) WD-40 and cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?

5. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," whose admission price is "the kidneys" (64)?

(see the answer key)

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