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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 "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?
(a) The Biblical creation story.
(b) The week the speaker was separated from the beloved.
(c) The legend of the Centimani.
(d) The week the speaker spent with the beloved.

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

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?
(a) America's history of oppression.
(b) Her relationship with her family.
(c) Her intimate relationship with a White lover.
(d) The work required to tend a garden successfully.

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

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Conceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

3. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what does the speaker compare breathing to?

4. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?

5. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker compare the light in the holes in the walls?

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