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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" through "The First Water Is the Body".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Pathetic Fallacy.
(d) Personification.

2. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?
(a) Moaning.
(b) Barking.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Clicking.

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Colorado.
(c) California.
(d) Washington.

4. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A bull.
(b) A jaguar.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A scorpion.

5. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?
(a) Pomegranates.
(b) Figs.
(c) Apples.
(d) Melons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

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

3. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?

4. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?

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