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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," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Double entente.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

2. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?
(a) Her self-inflicted wounds.
(b) The desert flowers.
(c) The beloved's thighs.
(d) The light that she and her lover find together.

3. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Double entente.
(d) Apologia.

4. What unusual typographic device is contained in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) Redaction.
(b) Hedera.
(c) Call-out.
(d) Implied ephemera.

5. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.
(b) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A smoothed and polished stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what kind of food is mentioned twice?

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?

3. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what twentieth century American movie is alluded to?

5. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?

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