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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) "All that I have done and failed to do" (57).
(c) "You've heard me churn and later, yet knock and enter" (56).
(d) "What question can I ask of the thing I am"? (57)

4. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what creature's horn is referenced in the poem's epigraph?
(a) Bull.
(b) Narwhal.
(c) Rhinocerous.
(d) Unicorn.

5. In "Waist and Sway," to what type of building is the beloved compared?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A skyscraper.
(c) A church bell tower.
(d) A ziggurat.

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) Raven.
(d) Rabbit.

7. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is personified as a woman?
(a) The air.
(b) The hawk.
(c) The dust.
(d) The train.

8. 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) Paradox.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Metonymy.

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

10. In "The First Water Is the Body," what word does the speaker borrow from John Berger?
(a) "Channeled."
(b) "Juxtaposition."
(c) "Pre-verbal."
(d) "Submerge."

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

12. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

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

15. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?
(a) ""The wood" (59).
(b) "The girl" (59).
(c) "The walkway" (59).
(d) "The walls" (59).

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I, Minotaur," who is Briareus?

2. In "Waist and Sway," the page 78 line "Oh, City--where hands turned holy" is an example of what literary technique?

3. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker claim causes the milky appearance of the galaxy?

4. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what British monarch is mentioned?

5. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?

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