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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 "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?
(a) The work required to tend a garden successfully.
(b) Her relationship with her family.
(c) Her intimate relationship with a White lover.
(d) America's history of oppression.

2. In "The Mustangs," what is the purpose of mentioning the brother's "thin ankles" (35)?
(a) It foreshadows his injury.
(b) It stresses his determination.
(c) It distinguishes him from the other boys.
(d) It compares him to a horse.

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with violence.
(b) She associates lightening with rain.
(c) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

4. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Crumbling away.
(c) Danger.
(d) Enormity.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
(a) It stands for the barriers life puts in the way of poor Indian children.
(b) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.
(c) It stands for adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.
(d) It stands for the "world" that education can open to underprivileged children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?

2. 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)?

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?

4. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?

5. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?

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