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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?
(a) Louisa May Alcott.
(b) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

2. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what twentieth century American movie is alluded to?
(a) Star Wars.
(b) Carmen.
(c) Raging Bull.
(d) 2001: A Space Odyssey.

3. In "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert," what does the speaker say her "lasso" is made of?
(a) Water.
(b) Light.
(c) Breath.
(d) Desire.

4. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that basketball is identical with?
(a) College.
(b) Church.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

5. In "Grief Work," what do the words "Auxocromo" and "Cromóforo" refer to?
(a) Molecular structures.
(b) Constellations.
(c) Aztec gods.
(d) Famous bullfighters.

6. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker compare writing to?
(a) Being eaten.
(b) Amputation.
(c) Shapeshifting.
(d) Capturing a snake.

7. In "It Was the Animals," what has the speaker's brother actually found?
(a) The wooden handle of a hatchet.
(b) A plank from a rowboat.
(c) A piece of driftwood.
(d) A piece of a picture frame.

8. What figure from Mexican folklore is referred to in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) La Llorona.
(b) Los Chaneques.
(c) El Duende.
(d) El Coco.

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

10. In "The First Water Is the Body," what river does the author specifically discuss?
(a) The Blackfoot River.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) The Green River.
(d) The Salmon River.

11. In "Grief Work," which ancient work is alluded to?
(a) Hesiod's Theogony.
(b) The Code of Hammurabi.
(c) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
(d) Homer's Odyssey.

12. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?
(a) With apathy.
(b) With awe.
(c) With amusement.
(d) With anger.

13. In "The First Water Is the Body," what word does the speaker borrow from John Berger?
(a) "Juxtaposition."
(b) "Channeled."
(c) "Submerge."
(d) "Pre-verbal."

14. In "Waist and Sway," what page 78 diction choice indicates that the speaker feels punished or oppressed by her desire for the woman?
(a) "Amber."
(b) "Pillory."
(c) "Moths."
(d) "Alchemists."

15. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?
(a) Its beauty.
(b) Its fertility.
(c) Its power.
(d) Its spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?

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

3. In "Grief Work," what does the speaker say she is giving up?

4. In "Waist and Sway," the passage in which jackdaws wait on the garden walls compares the lover to what?

5. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?

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