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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 "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hypotaxis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Syllogism.

2. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?
(a) The title of a Whitman poem.
(b) Directions from the forest to the sea.
(c) Commentary about U.S. history.
(d) Ariadne's advice to Theseus.

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

4. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A jaguar.
(b) A bomb.
(c) A train.
(d) A carnivorous plant.

5. In "Asterion's Lament," to what is the beloved's body compared besides water?
(a) A garden.
(b) A maze.
(c) A desert.
(d) A palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?

2. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?

3. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?

4. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?

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