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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) Pathetic Fallacy.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

2. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?
(a) Certificate of Indian Blood.
(b) Combat Infantryman Badge.
(c) Citizens Information Board.
(d) Criminal Investigation Branch.

3. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?
(a) Solemn.
(b) Mordant.
(c) Macabre.
(d) Ambivalent.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The Colorado River.
(b) The line connecting stars in a constellation.
(c) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.
(d) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.

5. In "Ink-Light," where are the speaker and her beloved?
(a) On a snowy street.
(b) On a riverbank.
(c) In a hotel room.
(d) In the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?

2. 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)?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

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

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

(see the answer key)

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