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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 say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) The beloved's body.
(b) A searchlight.
(c) Dirty water.
(d) The window.

2. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?
(a) The speaker and the beloved.
(b) The animals the speaker's parents raised.
(c) Cars often seen on the reservation.
(d) A basketball team.

3. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?
(a) "Instinct" and "desire."
(b) The "dunes of your hips" and "long thirst."
(c) "Tracking" and "cameras."
(d) "A same wilding path" and "wolf naps."

4. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Enjambment.
(d) Synechdoche.

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.
(d) The line connecting stars in a constellation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?

2. In "Like Church," the speaker uses the Spanish term of endearment "Mi caracol" (29). What is the literal translation of this expression?

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker compare her relationship with the church to?

4. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?

5. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker mean in "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" when she says that she can see through maps?

2. In "Ink-Light," how are colors used to shift the poem's tone?

3. In "The Mustangs," why does the speaker open the poem by reminding the reader that it was "In another life" that her brother was a high-school athlete (35)?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what impresses the speaker about Clyde's basketball playing?

5. 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?

6. Explain the central conceit in the poem "Catching Copper."

7. What is the setting of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?

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

9. Explain the conceit introduced by the line, "I know another name for holy is water" in "Asterion's Lament" (27).

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

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