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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. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Make someone fall in love with you.
(b) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.
(c) Predict the weather.
(d) Help you find your way home.

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(b) It foreshadows the poem's ending.
(c) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(d) It portrays them as underdogs.

3. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her brother.

4. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Hyperbaton.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

5. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?
(a) Octavio Paz.
(b) Pablo Neruda.
(c) Rosalía de Castro.
(d) Federico García Lorca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?

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. In "Asterion's Lament," to what is the beloved's body compared besides water?

4. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?

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

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