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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 "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?
(a) Unripe, I want it unripe.
(b) Unripe, I love things unripe.
(c) Green, I want you green.
(d) Green, I love the green.

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

3. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A porous rock.
(b) A transparent salt.
(c) A black mineral.
(d) A polished fossil.

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?
(a) Providence.
(b) God's grace.
(c) Contemplation.
(d) The soul.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?

3. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?

4. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?

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

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