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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 "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A variety of jasper.
(b) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.
(c) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.
(d) A smoothed and polished stone.

2. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?
(a) Bite.
(b) Know.
(c) Howl.
(d) Love.

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?
(a) He develops a chronic injury.
(b) He gets more involved with his job and adult responsibilities.
(c) He starts spending more time with his girlfriend.
(d) He develops a substance use disorder.

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

5. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?
(a) Jaw.
(b) Thigh.
(c) Eye.
(d) Stomach.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?

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

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?

4. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

5. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. In "Skin-Light," what is the "work of all good yokes" (22)?

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

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

9. In what way does the page 1 opening line of "Postcolonial Love Poem," ("I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite") center the Mojave worldview?

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

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