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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 the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"
(a) Her brother's motive for trying to stab her.
(b) A way to communicate genuine joy.
(c) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.
(d) How to tell her lover that she wants them to have a child.

2. In "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Anthropomorphism.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Double entente.

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(b) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(c) The wise women who control fate.
(d) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.

4. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Allusion.

5. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.
(b) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A smoothed and polished stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

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

3. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

5. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?

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