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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) Allegory.
(d) Allusion.

2. 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)?
(a) Hyperbaton.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

3. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?
(a) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what American poet's death is mentioned?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Elizabeth Bishop.
(c) John Ashbery.
(d) Robert Frost.

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is the antecedent of the word "they" in the opening line "Haven't they moved like rivers?" (7)?

3. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?

5. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?

(see the answer key)

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