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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) Walt Whitman.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Louisa May Alcott.
(d) Paul Laurence Dunbar.

2. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?
(a) Sherman Alexie.
(b) Susan Power.
(c) Linda Hogan.
(d) Louis Owens.

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

4. Who is the Jacques Derrida mentioned in "The First Water Is the Body"?
(a) A French-Canadian poet.
(b) A French philosopher.
(c) An Algerian artist.
(d) A Louisiana politician.

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

6. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?
(a) To indicate more than one exclamation.
(b) This is how the acronym for "missing in action" is made plural in Spanish.
(c) The mother of someone named "Mia" is being discussed.
(d) More than one mother is being discussed.

7. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?
(a) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(b) Blank verse and alliteration.
(c) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and blank verse.

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

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

10. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Dream-like.
(c) Rusting.
(d) Dirty.

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

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

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

14. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that Indian sweat smells like?
(a) Grape juice and Air Jordans.
(b) WD-40 and cake.
(c) Tortillas and Pine-Sol.
(d) Airplane glue and potato chips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "exhibits from The American Water Museum" warn that you "cannot drink" (69)?

2. In "Waist and Sway," what causes the beloved to have a "honeyed" appearance?

3. In "My Brother, My Wound," where does the speaker's brother say he is going in the end of the poem?

4. In "It Was the Animals," what technique is used in the description of the piece of the "ark" next to the speaker's coffee cup?

5. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is personified as a woman?

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