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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 "How the Milky Way Was Made," what Western cities' use of Colorado River water is criticized?
(a) Sacramento and Tempe.
(b) Phoenix and Dallas.
(c) Denver and San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

2. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?
(a) The "dunes of your hips" and "long thirst."
(b) "A same wilding path" and "wolf naps."
(c) "Tracking" and "cameras."
(d) "Instinct" and "desire."

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker compare the light in the holes in the walls?
(a) Canaries.
(b) Yellow jackets.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Stars.

4. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
(a) It refers to a character from the movie Sleepwalking.
(b) It refers to the poem "Romance Sonámbulo."
(c) It refers to the poem "Sleep and Poetry."
(d) It refers to a character from the novel Intemperie.

5. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Enormity.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Danger.
(d) Crumbling away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?

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

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

4. In "My Brother, My Wound," what does the speaker's brother say the word "canaries" really means?

5. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?

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