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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. What technique is used in the "American Arithmetic" lines, "I do not remember the days before America--/ I do not remember the days when we were all here" (17)?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Hyperbaton.

2. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Follow the animals.
(b) Read the inscription on the wood.
(c) Call her brother's doctor.
(d) Throw out the piece of wood.

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?
(a) Wind.
(b) A headache.
(c) A traffic accident.
(d) Fabric.

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what kind of a creature is "Asterion"?
(a) Half-bull and half-human.
(b) Half-bird and half-human.
(c) Half-snake and half-human.
(d) Half-fish and half-human.

5. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?
(a) To indicate more than one exclamation.
(b) This is how the acronym for "missing in action" is made plural in Spanish.
(c) The mother of someone named "Mia" is being discussed.
(d) More than one mother is being discussed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

3. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

5. In "My Brother, My Wound," where does the speaker's brother say he is going in the end of the poem?

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