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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. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Double entendre.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Allegory.

2. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what twentieth century American movie is alluded to?
(a) Raging Bull.
(b) Carmen.
(c) 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(d) Star Wars.

3. 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 opened-gold field."
(d) The "glide of the hand."

4. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Calabash."
(b) "Chalcedony."
(c) "Light-well."
(d) "Lamp-Land."

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that basketball is identical with?
(a) Church.
(b) College.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," why does the speaker take her brother's call?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

5. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

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