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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 addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Personification.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) A searchlight.
(b) The beloved's body.
(c) Dirty water.
(d) The window.

3. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) Subway train.
(d) Airplane.

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?
(a) Fill the room.
(b) Put bees to sleep.
(c) Speak an unknown language.
(d) Preserve meat.

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) Anthropomorphism.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Double entente.
(d) Sarcasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?

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

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

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

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