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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Grief Work," what is the "black flower" the speaker mentions in the opening of the poem, on page 93?
(a) The pupil of the beloved's eye.
(b) The stinger of a yellow jacket.
(c) The mark left by a bull's horn.
(d) The speaker's sorrow.

2. In "The First Water Is the Body," what protest does the speaker mention?
(a) Standing Rock.
(b) The Occupation of Alcatraz.
(c) Occupy Wall Street.
(d) The Women's March on Washington.

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

4. 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.

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

6. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," who is mentioned as having stolen the Creator's heart?
(a) Coyote.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Raven.

7. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what does the speaker claim to have been changed into?
(a) A honeycomb.
(b) A seraph.
(c) A queen.
(d) A castle.

8. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific product's logo does the speaker mention?
(a) Eskimo Pie.
(b) Land O' Lakes Butter.
(c) Indian Motorcycle.
(d) Calumet Baking Powder.

9. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," the speaker describes something as "Maenad." What is this a reference to?
(a) King Menelaus's wife.
(b) Demeter's daughter.
(c) Dionysus's female followers.
(d) Orpheus's wife.

10. In "I, Minotaur," what does the speaker call "lilac-lit pools of ablution" (57)?
(a) Her self-inflicted wounds.
(b) The light that she and her lover find together.
(c) The beloved's thighs.
(d) The desert flowers.

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

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

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

14. From its context in "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what can be assumed about the Hotchkiss and Springfield Model 1873?
(a) It is a U.S. Cavalry weapon.
(b) It is a type of railroad engine.
(c) It is a type of basketball.
(d) It is one of the first sources of outdoor electric light.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?

2. In "Snake-Light," what tradition does the speaker critique?

3. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker compare writing to?

4. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what Western cities' use of Colorado River water is criticized?

5. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what object does the speaker compare her camera?

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