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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 "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," how does the tone shift with the image of the speaker looking out the window?
(a) It becomes darker and lonelier.
(b) It becomes angrier and more strident.
(c) It becomes more buoyant with desire.
(d) It becomes more objectively intellectual.

2. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?
(a) 1%.
(b) 1.4%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 0.8%.

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?
(a) Broken ice.
(b) Spilled milk.
(c) Spoiled milk.
(d) Broken glass.

4. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Double entendre.
(d) Allegory.

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with rain.
(b) She associates lightening with violence.
(c) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," when the speaker claims to be the only Native person "on the 8th floor of this hotel or any," what technique is being used (14)?

4. 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)?

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

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