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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Call her brother's doctor.
(b) Follow the animals.
(c) Read the inscription on the wood.
(d) Throw out the piece of wood.

2. In "I, Minotaur," which of the following phrases expresses the mixed nature of the Minotaur?
(a) "For what erupts my badlands and my tired eyes in beauty" (56).
(b) "What question can I ask of the thing I am"? (57)
(c) "All that I have done and failed to do" (57).
(d) "You've heard me churn and later, yet knock and enter" (56).

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

4. 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 one of the first sources of outdoor electric light.
(d) It is a type of basketball.

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

6. In "Snake-Light," the speaker mentions "caliche" (82). What is caliche?
(a) A kind of ravine or gully.
(b) A desert insect.
(c) A sedimentary rock.
(d) A bone in a snake's tail.

7. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what does the speaker compare breathing to?
(a) A magician's escape trick.
(b) The rolling of ocean waves.
(c) The flight of a hawk.
(d) Using bellows to stoke a fire.

8. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what Russian-American poet is quoted?
(a) Walter Benton.
(b) Peter Orlovsky.
(c) Joseph Brodsky.
(d) Vladimir Nabokov.

9. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," where does the speaker's recurring dream take place?
(a) In a New York hotel room.
(b) In her mother's kitchen.
(c) At the edge of the reservation.
(d) At a high-school basketball game.

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

11. In "My Brother, My Wound," where does the speaker's brother say he is going in the end of the poem?
(a) To buy a camera.
(b) To find a yellow dog.
(c) To ride a Ferris wheel.
(d) To lie in the desert under the moon.

12. 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) "Where is the rope of light?"
(b) "Where else can I go?"
(c) "Are you my new home?"
(d) "What is your address?"

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

14. In "Grief Work," what does the speaker say she is giving up?
(a) Her sorrow.
(b) Her desire.
(c) Her future.
(d) Her culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is anger said to be a demand for?

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?

3. In "The First Water Is the Body," what word does the speaker borrow from John Berger?

4. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker's brother compare her wound?

5. In "I, Minotaur," what device is used in phrases like "love and what love becomes" and "appetite of your own appetite" (55)?

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