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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "I, Minotaur" through "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?
(a) It is a star that recently went super-nova.
(b) This is the proper name for the "North Star."
(c) It is also called the "heart of the scorpion."
(d) It is one half of a "double" star.

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," where does the speaker's recurring dream take place?
(a) At the edge of the reservation.
(b) At a high-school basketball game.
(c) In her mother's kitchen.
(d) In a New York hotel room.

3. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"
(a) Her brother's motive for trying to stab her.
(b) A way to communicate genuine joy.
(c) How to tell her lover that she wants them to have a child.
(d) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.

4. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Enjambment.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synechdoche.

5. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is anger said to be a demand for?
(a) Reparations.
(b) Love.
(c) Apology.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

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

3. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?

4. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what does the speaker compare the camera's aperture?

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

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