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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," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(b) She associates lightening with violence.
(c) She associates lightening with rain.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.
2. 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 adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.
(d) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.
3. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) An owl.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A bull.
(d) A cat.
4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone long dead.
(b) Someone white.
(c) Someone who is not American.
(d) Someone who understands her.
5. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Chalcedony."
(b) "Lamp-Land."
(c) "Calabash."
(d) "Light-well."
Short Answer Questions
1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?
2. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
3. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?
4. In "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
5. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
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