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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 "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) Green, I want you green.
(d) Unripe, I want it unripe.

2. 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 brother.
(d) Her mother.

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

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 uses ballad meter.
(d) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(b) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(c) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.
(d) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.

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. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?

4. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?

5. In "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?

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