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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 refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?
(a) The soul.
(b) Providence.
(c) God's grace.
(d) Contemplation.

2. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?
(a) Being loved.
(b) Being lonely.
(c) Being heard.
(d) Being dead.

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

4. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?
(a) Time.
(b) Bars.
(c) Judge.
(d) Cage.

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone has wounded someone.
(b) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(c) The drone is taking photographs.
(d) The drone is following someone.

Short Answer 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)?

2. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?

4. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

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