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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 "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?
(a) Ariadne's advice to Theseus.
(b) Commentary about U.S. history.
(c) Directions from the forest to the sea.
(d) The title of a Whitman poem.

2. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Paradox.

3. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what are "our conquerors" compared to (44)?
(a) Bulls.
(b) Coyotes.
(c) Horses.
(d) Jaguars.

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(b) It foreshadows the poem's ending.
(c) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(d) It portrays them as underdogs.

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?
(a) The Battle of Red Cliffs.
(b) The Peloponnesian War.
(c) The Texas-Indian Wars.
(d) The Trojan War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what does the speaker compare the camera's aperture?

3. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?

4. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?

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