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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 "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A transparent salt.
(b) A black mineral.
(c) A polished fossil.
(d) A porous rock.

2. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what British monarch is mentioned?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) George III.
(d) Victoria I.

3. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?
(a) This is an allusion to a 20th century American pop song.
(b) This refers back to the earlier allusion to Alcinous.
(c) These are fruits commonly used as symbols of the female form.
(d) These are the fruits grown in the Garden of Eden.

4. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?
(a) Cars often seen on the reservation.
(b) The animals the speaker's parents raised.
(c) The speaker and the beloved.
(d) A basketball team.

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what technique is employed in the phrase "How many hours bowed" (37)?
(a) Amplification.
(b) Conundrum.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?

2. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?

3. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?

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

5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?

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