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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 the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Apologia.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Double entente.

2. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?
(a) These are the fruits grown in the Garden of Eden.
(b) This refers back to the earlier allusion to Alcinous.
(c) These are fruits commonly used as symbols of the female form.
(d) This is an allusion to a 20th century American pop song.

3. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?
(a) It employs a regular meter.
(b) It is rhymed.
(c) It is concrete poetry.
(d) It is a prose poem.

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," how does the tone shift with the image of the speaker looking out the window?
(a) It becomes angrier and more strident.
(b) It becomes more buoyant with desire.
(c) It becomes darker and lonelier.
(d) It becomes more objectively intellectual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?

2. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?

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

4. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," the speaker describes something as "Maenad." What is this a reference to?

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