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

2. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) It uses ballad meter.
(b) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.
(c) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(d) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.

3. What does "exhibits from The American Water Museum" warn that you "cannot drink" (69)?
(a) Dust.
(b) Money.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Flint's water.

4. In "I, Minotaur," the speaker uses the word "Minotauromachy." Where does this word come from?
(a) The contemporary YA series The Hunger Games.
(b) A Keats poem about a Grecian artifact.
(c) A Shakespearean play.
(d) A work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what kind of food is mentioned twice?
(a) Homemade apple pie.
(b) Foraged natural food.
(c) Government commodity food.
(d) Gas-station snacks.

Short Answer 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?

2. What unusual typographic device is contained in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?

3. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?

4. What figure from Mexican folklore is referred to in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?

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