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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 "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with violence.
(b) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(c) She associates lightening with rain.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

2. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Hypotaxis.
(b) Pun.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Syllogism.

3. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A train.
(b) A carnivorous plant.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A bomb.

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?
(a) Antonomasia.
(b) Consonance.
(c) Neologism.
(d) Circumlocution.

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?
(a) Love.
(b) Bite.
(c) Howl.
(d) Know.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," whose admission price is "the kidneys" (64)?

2. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?

5. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?

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