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

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A bull.
(c) A lion.
(d) A rabbit.

3. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Thread."
(b) "Jet."
(c) "Holy."
(d) "Map."

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

5. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?
(a) A polished fossil.
(b) A porous rock.
(c) A transparent salt.
(d) A black mineral.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

2. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?

3. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?

4. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?

5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker mean by "how did Theseus find no joy in you?" (27)?

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

3. 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?

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

5. In "Like Church," what claim is made about what whites compare Native people to?

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

7. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," why does the speaker mention Beyoncé and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?

8. In "From the Desire Field," what is the "desire field," and why does the speaker find herself there?

9. In "Blood-Light," what do the scorpions represent, and how does the reader know this?

10. In "The Mustangs," how are mustangs used symbolically?

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