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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 "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Double entente.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Baseball.
(c) An ancient Mesoamerican ball game.
(d) Lacross.

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) Crumbling away.
(b) Danger.
(c) Enormity.
(d) Satisfaction.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is being referred to by the phrase "these two potters" (7)?

2. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?

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

4. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?

5. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In "From the Desire Field," what is the "desire field," and why does the speaker find herself there?

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

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

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

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

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