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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. Who is the Jacques Derrida mentioned in "The First Water Is the Body"?
(a) A Louisiana politician.
(b) A French philosopher.
(c) A French-Canadian poet.
(d) An Algerian artist.

2. In "Asterion's Lament," what kind of a creature is "Asterion"?
(a) Half-fish and half-human.
(b) Half-bird and half-human.
(c) Half-snake and half-human.
(d) Half-bull and half-human.

3. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A porous rock.
(b) A polished fossil.
(c) A transparent salt.
(d) A black mineral.

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker say can "make you clean" (42)?
(a) Rain.
(b) Sand.
(c) Ash.
(d) Grief.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?

2. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"

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

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?

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