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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 protest does the speaker mention?
(a) Occupy Wall Street.
(b) The Women's March on Washington.
(c) Standing Rock.
(d) The Occupation of Alcatraz.

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

3. In "I, Minotaur," who is Briareus?
(a) Ariadne's father.
(b) This is another name for Theseus.
(c) One of the people killed by the Minotaur.
(d) One of the Hecatoncheires.

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?
(a) Dos Palos, California.
(b) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(c) Flint, Michigan.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

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

6. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," whose admission price is "the kidneys" (64)?
(a) Fish.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Natives.
(d) Children.

7. In "Snake-Light," what tradition does the speaker critique?
(a) Snake charming.
(b) Snake handling.
(c) Milking rattlesnake venom.
(d) Rattlesnake rodeos.

8. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?
(a) Neologism.
(b) Circumlocution.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Antonomasia.

9. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is a "traje de luces"?
(a) The flashy costumes worn by Mexican luchadores.
(b) The many-colored coat worn by Joseph in the Bible.
(c) The traditional clothing worn by Spanish bullfighters.
(d) The white robes worn by Catholic bishops.

10. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker dream about?
(a) Snakes trying to talk to her.
(b) That her pickup truck is full of snakes.
(c) Snakes turning into White people.
(d) That her arms have turned into snakes.

11. In "I, Minotaur," the speaker uses the word "Minotauromachy." Where does this word come from?
(a) A work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
(b) A Keats poem about a Grecian artifact.
(c) A Shakespearean play.
(d) The contemporary YA series The Hunger Games.

12. In "Waist and Sway," what causes the beloved to have a "honeyed" appearance?
(a) Streetlights.
(b) Lamplight.
(c) A fire's glow.
(d) Candlelight.

13. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker say can "make you clean" (42)?
(a) Grief.
(b) Ash.
(c) Sand.
(d) Rain.

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

15. What unusual typographic device is contained in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
(a) Redaction.
(b) Implied ephemera.
(c) Hedera.
(d) Call-out.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what creature's horn is referenced in the poem's epigraph?

2. Who is the Jacques Derrida mentioned in "The First Water Is the Body"?

3. In "Waist and Sway," to what type of building is the beloved compared?

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?

5. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?

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