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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) Green, I want you green.
(b) Green, I love the green.
(c) Unripe, I love things unripe.
(d) Unripe, I want it unripe.

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?
(a) The legend of the Centimani.
(b) The week the speaker was separated from the beloved.
(c) The week the speaker spent with the beloved.
(d) The Biblical creation story.

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

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?
(a) Wind.
(b) A headache.
(c) A traffic accident.
(d) Fabric.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?

4. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?

5. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?

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