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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. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Clicking.
(c) Barking.
(d) Moaning.

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

3. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Crumbling away.
(b) Danger.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Enormity.

4. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) This "god-made place."
(b) "Skin-Light."
(c) The "glide of the hand."
(d) "The opened-gold field."

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?
(a) Broken ice.
(b) Spilled milk.
(c) Broken glass.
(d) Spoiled milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?

2. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?

3. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?

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

(see the answer key)

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