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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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what kind of food is mentioned twice?
(a) Homemade apple pie.
(b) Government commodity food.
(c) Gas-station snacks.
(d) Foraged natural food.

2. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?
(a) Polluting it.
(b) Forgetting its original name.
(c) Damming it.
(d) Becoming alienated from it.

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," where does the speaker's brother say he is going in the end of the poem?
(a) To ride a Ferris wheel.
(b) To find a yellow dog.
(c) To lie in the desert under the moon.
(d) To buy a camera.

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her lover.

5. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?
(a) Being dead.
(b) Being loved.
(c) Being heard.
(d) Being lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?

2. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?

3. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?

4. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," the speaker mentions an "alcazar." What is an alcazar?

5. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?

(see the answer key)

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