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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does "exhibits from The American Water Museum" warn that you "cannot drink" (69)?
(a) Money.
(b) Flint's water.
(c) Dust.
(d) Poetry.

7. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?
(a) Its power.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its fertility.
(d) Its spirituality.

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

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

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

11. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's brother tell her she can read about on the wood he has found?
(a) The true story of Creation.
(b) The "rules" for getting into Heaven.
(c) The secret names of God.
(d) The end of the world.

12. In "Snake-Light," what is the rhetorical purpose of mentioning the butterflies?
(a) They symbolize the lightness and freedom of shedding the body.
(b) They symbolize the lingering and then departure of the snake's spirit.
(c) They symbolize transformation and the creation of life from death.
(d) They symbolize the beauty of the desert ecosystem.

13. 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.

14. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what object does the speaker compare her camera?
(a) A gun.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A poem.
(d) A mirror.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that basketball is identical with?

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

3. In "Snake-Light," the speaker mentions "caliche" (82). What is caliche?

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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