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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," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(b) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.
(c) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(d) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.

2. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) The "glide of the hand."
(b) "The opened-gold field."
(c) "Skin-Light."
(d) This "god-made place."

3. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Getting shot.
(b) Capturing an escaped dog.
(c) Working in a mine.
(d) Playing a game with pennies.

4. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Double entendre.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Allusion.

5. In "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
(a) Double entente.
(b) Anthropomorphism.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Sarcasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?

2. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?

3. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?

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

5. In "The Mustangs," what AC/DC song is mentioned?

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