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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 "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
(a) It stands for the barriers life puts in the way of poor Indian children.
(b) It stands for the "world" that education can open to underprivileged children.
(c) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.
(d) It stands for adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.

2. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Light-well."
(b) "Chalcedony."
(c) "Lamp-Land."
(d) "Calabash."

3. 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) How to tell her lover that she wants them to have a child.
(c) A way to communicate genuine joy.
(d) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.

4. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Paraprosdokian.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Synechdoche.

5. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(b) It uses ballad meter.
(c) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(d) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is the antecedent of the word "they" in the opening line "Haven't they moved like rivers?" (7)?

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

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