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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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?
(a) Louisa May Alcott.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

2. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?
(a) The work required to tend a garden successfully.
(b) Her intimate relationship with a White lover.
(c) America's history of oppression.
(d) Her relationship with her family.

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

4. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Paraprosdokian.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metonymy.

5. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Crayfish.
(b) Chopsticks.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Knitting needles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

2. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker say can "make you clean" (42)?

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?

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