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

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?
(a) The Biblical creation story.
(b) The week the speaker was separated from the beloved.
(c) The legend of the Centimani.
(d) The week the speaker spent with the beloved.

3. 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) Apostrophe.
(b) Personification.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?
(a) Aphorismus.
(b) Encomium.
(c) Anthimeria.
(d) Neologism.

5. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Capturing an escaped dog.
(b) Working in a mine.
(c) Playing a game with pennies.
(d) Getting shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Like Church," the speaker uses the Spanish term of endearment "Mi caracol" (29). What is the literal translation of this expression?

2. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?

3. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?

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

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," how does the tone shift with the image of the speaker looking out the window?

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