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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?
(a) She feels controlled by her partner's whims and desires.
(b) She worries about assuming that she knows how her relationship will end.
(c) Fairy tales and fables create unrealistic expectation about love.
(d) It is easy to fall into the trap of fulfilling a stereotype.

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?
(a) A prolonged period of lazy satisfaction.
(b) The substance that the Greek gods had instead of blood.
(c) A strong desire to engage in sexual activity.
(d) The wine that the gods drank on Mount Olympus.

3. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?
(a) Being heard.
(b) Being lonely.
(c) Being loved.
(d) Being dead.

4. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Meiosis.

5. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?
(a) It is clear, with hues shifting from green to pink.
(b) It is a clouded and luminous orange.
(c) It is a clear yellow, but has green, blue, and pink occlusions.
(d) It is opaque, varying from red to orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Desire Field," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?

2. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Skin-Light," what is Teotlachco, and what is its significance in the poem?

2. What is a literal summary of the action of "Blood-Light"?

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what life lessons does the speaker learn from playing basketball?

4. What is the main point being made in "American Arithmetic"?

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what metaphor is employed in the section of the poem where the speaker claims, "Some things cannot be charted" (32)?

6. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what dark joke does the speaker make about reparations?

7. In "The Mustangs," what is important to the speaker about her brother's appearance?

8. What is the speaker's argument for her hands as "gods" in "These Hands, If Not Gods"?

9. In "From the Desire Field," what seems to make the speaker feel better, and to what does she point as a possible, eventual cure for her sleeplessness?

10. To whom is the speaker alluding in the third strophe of "These Hands, If Not Gods," when she mentions "a sin worth hurting for" (7), and how does the reader know this?

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