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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?
(a) Pratt, Kansas.
(b) Iola, Kansas.
(c) Kearney, Nebraska.
(d) Chadron, Nebraska.

4. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" the use of the word "coppered" is an example of which literary technique (73)?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Syllepsis.
(d) Zeugma.

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

6. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," why does the speaker take her brother's call?
(a) Because he will keep calling until she does.
(b) Because she thinks that it is someone else calling.
(c) Because he might be in danger.
(d) Because she wants to tell him about the cranes.

7. In "My Brother, My Wound," what does the speaker's brother say the word "canaries" really means?
(a) Love.
(b) Run.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Dogs.

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

9. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "My Brother, My Wound," what does the speaker's brother call into the house?

2. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the speaker say is the "first violence against any body of water" (64)?

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

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what protest does the speaker mention?

5. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker compare the light in the holes in the walls?

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