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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 "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) Enormity.
(d) Danger.

2. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?
(a) It is a prose poem.
(b) It is rhymed.
(c) It is concrete poetry.
(d) It employs a regular meter.

3. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?
(a) "Like a date."
(b) "With a moan."
(c) "Like a bee."
(d) "With a limp."

4. In "The Mustangs," what AC/DC song is mentioned?
(a) "Back in Black."
(b) "Highway to Hell."
(c) "Thunderstruck."
(d) "Shot in the Dark."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?

2. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," which religion's god is alluded to in the line "didn't you sing out their ninety-nine names?" (8)?

5. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?

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