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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Asterion's Lament" through "The Mustangs".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(b) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(c) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(d) The wise women who control fate.

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Lacross.
(c) An ancient Mesoamerican ball game.
(d) Baseball.

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

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone who understands her.
(b) Someone who is not American.
(c) Someone white.
(d) Someone long dead.

5. 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) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.
(d) A way to communicate genuine joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?

2. In "Asterion's Lament," to what is the beloved's body compared besides water?

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," which religion's god is alluded to in the line "didn't you sing out their ninety-nine names?" (8)?

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