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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word" through "Run'n'Gun".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is implied in "Postcolonial Love Poem's" allusion to the wars "which started me, which I lost and won"?
(a) The speaker's parents had a difficult relationship, and she inherited their argumentative tendencies.
(b) Romantic relationships represent both a beginning and an end.
(c) Diaz is a pacifist who objects to war of any kind.
(d) Both the speaker's existence and struggles result from the wars of colonial conquest.

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her lover.

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone is following someone.
(b) The drone has wounded someone.
(c) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(d) The drone is taking photographs.

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Personification.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

2. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?

3. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?

5. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

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