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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 "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Moaning.
(c) Barking.
(d) Clicking.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?

3. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?

5. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?

(see the answer key)

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