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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 "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A smoothed and polished stone.
(b) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.

2. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

3. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Hyperbaton.

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) The struggle for Native sovereignty.
(b) Her relationship with her lover.
(c) The battle against erasure.
(d) Her relationship with her brother.

5. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?
(a) Bruises.
(b) Painting.
(c) Stones.
(d) Flowers.

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

3. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?

4. 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"?

5. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?

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