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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 "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)?
(a) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(b) The drone is following someone.
(c) The drone is taking photographs.
(d) The drone has wounded someone.

2. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Meiosis.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Synesthesia.

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(b) She associates lightening with rain.
(c) She associates lightening with Manhattan.
(d) She associates lightening with violence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is a "traje de luces"?

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

3. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?

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

5. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?

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