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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 "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Blank verse and alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia and blank verse.
(d) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?
(a) The Mojave gods who created humans.
(b) Prometheus and Hecatonchire.
(c) The speaker's hands.
(d) The speaker and the beloved.

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

4. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Double entente.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Apologia.
(d) Epistrophe.

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.
(b) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(c) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(d) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?

2. According to "American Arithmetic," what percentage of the U.S. population is Native American?

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?

4. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?

5. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?

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