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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 "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) The "glide of the hand."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) "The opened-gold field."
(d) "Skin-Light."

2. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) Dirty water.
(b) The beloved's body.
(c) The window.
(d) A searchlight.

3. What technique is used in "American Arithmetic" in the page 17 line "O, mine efficient country"?
(a) Paraprosdokian.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metonymy.

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?
(a) Someone white.
(b) Someone who understands her.
(c) Someone long dead.
(d) Someone who is not American.

5. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A jaguar.
(c) A train.
(d) A carnivorous plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "American Arithmetic," what does the narrator suggest is better than being invisible?

2. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?

3. In "From the Desire Field," what other poet is alluded to?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?

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. In "Catching Copper," what is the significance of the page 11 lines ,"My brothers feed their bullet/ the way the bulls fed Zeus"?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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