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

2. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A bull.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A jaguar.

3. 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"?
(a) A hair comb.
(b) A rooster's comb.
(c) A textile comb.
(d) A honeycomb.

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Providence.
(c) The soul.
(d) God's grace.

5. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?
(a) It is a prose poem.
(b) It is concrete poetry.
(c) It employs a regular meter.
(d) It is rhymed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied in "Postcolonial Love Poem's" allusion to the wars "which started me, which I lost and won"?

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

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

4. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

5. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?

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