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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What name for the Mojave people does the speaker share in "The First Water Is the Body"?
(a) Me-wuk.
(b) Achumawi.
(c) 'Aha Makav.
(d) Te'po'ta'ahl.

3. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is personified as a woman?
(a) The train.
(b) The hawk.
(c) The air.
(d) The dust.

4. In "Waist and Sway," to what type of building is the beloved compared?
(a) A ziggurat.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A church bell tower.
(d) A skyscraper.

5. What question does the speaker ask on page 81, near the end of "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert"?
(a) "What is your address?"
(b) "Where is the rope of light?"
(c) "Are you my new home?"
(d) "Where else can I go?"

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

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

8. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what American poet's death is mentioned?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) John Ashbery.
(d) Elizabeth Bishop.

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

10. In "Waist and Sway," the page 78 line "Oh, City--where hands turned holy" is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Epistrophe.

11. In "Waist and Sway," the passage in which jackdaws wait on the garden walls compares the lover to what?
(a) A fig.
(b) A wall.
(c) A bird.
(d) A shadow.

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

13. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

15. In "My Brother, My Wound," what does the speaker's brother call into the house?
(a) Canaries.
(b) Yellow jackets.
(c) Bulls.
(d) Pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," the speaker mentions an "alcazar." What is an alcazar?

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?

3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific product's logo does the speaker mention?

5. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?

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