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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. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?
(a) "Like a date."
(b) "With a moan."
(c) "With a limp."
(d) "Like a bee."

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

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

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?
(a) Put bees to sleep.
(b) Fill the room.
(c) Preserve meat.
(d) Speak an unknown language.

5. 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)?
(a) The beloved's hands.
(b) The powers of Prometheus.
(c) The powers of the Christian God.
(d) The speaker's hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?

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

3. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

5. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?

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