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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 fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?
(a) Pomegranates.
(b) Figs.
(c) Melons.
(d) Apples.

2. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) The struggle for Native sovereignty.
(b) Her relationship with her lover.
(c) The battle against erasure.
(d) Her relationship with her brother.

3. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Danger.
(c) Enormity.
(d) Crumbling away.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?
(a) California.
(b) Washington.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Oregon.

5. 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"?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Hypotaxis.
(d) Pun.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," when the speaker claims to be the only Native person "on the 8th floor of this hotel or any," what technique is being used (14)?

2. 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"?

3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

4. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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