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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Postcolonial Love Poem" through "From the Desire Field".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Chopsticks.
(b) Crayfish.
(c) Knitting needles.
(d) Scorpions.

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

3. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?
(a) Unripe, I love things unripe.
(b) Green, I love the green.
(c) Unripe, I want it unripe.
(d) Green, I want you green.

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

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?
(a) The week the speaker was separated from the beloved.
(b) The Biblical creation story.
(c) The legend of the Centimani.
(d) The week the speaker spent with the beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?

2. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?

3. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

4. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

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

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