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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn" through "Grief Work".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Snake-Light," what is the rhetorical purpose of mentioning the butterflies?
(a) They symbolize transformation and the creation of life from death.
(b) They symbolize the lingering and then departure of the snake's spirit.
(c) They symbolize the beauty of the desert ecosystem.
(d) They symbolize the lightness and freedom of shedding the body.

2. In "Snake-Light," what letter does the speaker say was once just the image of a snake?
(a) C.
(b) M.
(c) N.
(d) S.

3. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Double entendre.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allusion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?

2. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what creature's horn is referenced in the poem's epigraph?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?

4. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?

5. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?

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