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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 "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?
(a) Unripe, I love things unripe.
(b) Green, I want you green.
(c) Green, I love the green.
(d) Unripe, I want it unripe.

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) Syllogism.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Pun.

3. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Thread."
(b) "Holy."
(c) "Map."
(d) "Jet."

4. 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)?
(a) The powers of Prometheus.
(b) The powers of the Christian God.
(c) The speaker's hands.
(d) The beloved's hands.

5. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?
(a) The birds that nest in their rafters.
(b) The family's dogs.
(c) Her son's arms and hands.
(d) Her children's toys.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?

2. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

3. In "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?

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

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