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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. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?
(a) The animals the speaker's parents raised.
(b) A basketball team.
(c) Cars often seen on the reservation.
(d) The speaker and the beloved.

2. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Make someone fall in love with you.
(b) Predict the weather.
(c) Help you find your way home.
(d) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.

3. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," whose admission price is "the kidneys" (64)?
(a) Children.
(b) Fish.
(c) Natives.
(d) Politicians.

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what are "our conquerors" compared to (44)?
(a) Coyotes.
(b) Bulls.
(c) Horses.
(d) Jaguars.

5. In "The First Water Is the Body," whom does the speaker call "The only red people I've ever seen" (46)?
(a) Sunburned tourists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Embarrassed politicians.
(d) The Mojave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?

2. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?

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

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what protest does the speaker mention?

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

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