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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 rain.
(b) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(c) She associates lightening with violence.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

2. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
(a) It refers to the poem "Romance Sonámbulo."
(b) It refers to the poem "Sleep and Poetry."
(c) It refers to a character from the movie Sleepwalking.
(d) It refers to a character from the novel Intemperie.

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) Apologia.
(b) Double entente.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Epistrophe.

4. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Neologism.
(c) Encomium.
(d) Aphorismus.

5. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Jacques Derrida mentioned in "The First Water Is the Body"?

2. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?

3. What name for the Mojave people does the speaker share in "The First Water Is the Body"?

4. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker say can "make you clean" (42)?

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