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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 "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?
(a) Onomatopoeia and blank verse.
(b) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(c) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(d) Blank verse and alliteration.

2. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?
(a) Apples.
(b) Figs.
(c) Melons.
(d) Pomegranates.

3. In "The First Water Is the Body," what protest does the speaker mention?
(a) The Women's March on Washington.
(b) The Occupation of Alcatraz.
(c) Standing Rock.
(d) Occupy Wall Street.

4. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?
(a) Damming it.
(b) Forgetting its original name.
(c) Polluting it.
(d) Becoming alienated from it.

5. What figure from Mexican folklore is referred to in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) Los Chaneques.
(b) El Duende.
(c) La Llorona.
(d) El Coco.

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 "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?

3. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

4. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?

5. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?

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