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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 "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?
(a) It is opaque, varying from red to orange.
(b) It is a clouded and luminous orange.
(c) It is a clear yellow, but has green, blue, and pink occlusions.
(d) It is clear, with hues shifting from green to pink.

2. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?
(a) 1%.
(b) 0.8%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 1.4%.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?

2. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?

5. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?

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