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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what are "our conquerors" compared to (44)?
(a) Coyotes.
(b) Horses.
(c) Bulls.
(d) Jaguars.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is anger said to be a demand for?
(a) Apology.
(b) Respect.
(c) Love.
(d) Reparations.

7. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what power does the speaker ascribe to the air?
(a) The power to dry out the land.
(b) The power to tell us what we are.
(c) The power to spread emotion from person to person.
(d) The power to give life.

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

9. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?
(a) With anger.
(b) With awe.
(c) With amusement.
(d) With apathy.

10. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?
(a) This refers back to the earlier allusion to Alcinous.
(b) These are fruits commonly used as symbols of the female form.
(c) These are the fruits grown in the Garden of Eden.
(d) This is an allusion to a 20th century American pop song.

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

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

13. 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.

14. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker's brother compare her wound?
(a) A rose garden.
(b) Jesus's wounds.
(c) Holes in the desert.
(d) Open mouths.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?

3. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?

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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," who is mentioned as having stolen the Creator's heart?

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