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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 "Waist and Sway," what causes the beloved to have a "honeyed" appearance?
(a) Lamplight.
(b) Candlelight.
(c) Streetlights.
(d) A fire's glow.

2. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Light-well."
(b) "Chalcedony."
(c) "Lamp-Land."
(d) "Calabash."

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone is taking photographs.
(b) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(c) The drone has wounded someone.
(d) The drone is following someone.

4. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," how many dams does the speaker say "shatter" the Colorado (61)?
(a) 18.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 15.

5. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Barking.
(c) Moaning.
(d) Clicking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

2. In "Waist and Sway," to what type of building is the beloved compared?

3. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?

4. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?

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