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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 "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?
(a) Pathetic Fallacy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synesthesia.

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

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It portrays them as underdogs.
(b) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(c) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(d) It foreshadows the poem's ending.

4. What distinguishes "Run'n'Gun" from the poems that come before it in the collection?
(a) It is rhymed.
(b) It is concrete poetry.
(c) It is a prose poem.
(d) It employs a regular meter.

5. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Apologia.
(d) Double entente.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," why is the word "Maps" in quotation marks?

2. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?

4. 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"?

5. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What play on the word "race" is used in "American Arithmetic"?

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

10. In "Wolf OR-7," what is significant about the wolf in the poem's title?

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