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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 wise women who control fate.
(b) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(c) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(d) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.

2. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

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

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

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?
(a) The Mojave gods who created humans.
(b) Prometheus and Hecatonchire.
(c) The speaker's hands.
(d) The speaker and the beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?

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

4. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?

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

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