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

2. In "Waist and Sway," the page 78 line "Oh, City--where hands turned holy" is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Anaphora.

3. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) This "god-made place."
(b) The "glide of the hand."
(c) "The opened-gold field."
(d) "Skin-Light."

4. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Capturing an escaped dog.
(b) Getting shot.
(c) Working in a mine.
(d) Playing a game with pennies.

5. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?
(a) "For what erupts my badlands and my tired eyes in beauty" (56).
(b) "All that I have done and failed to do" (57).
(c) "You've heard me churn and later, yet knock and enter" (56).
(d) "What question can I ask of the thing I am"? (57)

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?

2. In the opening of "Skin-Light," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker's brother compare her wound?

4. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?

5. In "Grief Work," which ancient work is alluded to?

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