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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 "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?
(a) Malapropism.
(b) Simile.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

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

4. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(b) It uses ballad meter.
(c) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(d) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.

5. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A lion.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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 "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 "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?

5. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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)?

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