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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 "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that Indian sweat smells like?
(a) Tortillas and Pine-Sol.
(b) Grape juice and Air Jordans.
(c) WD-40 and cake.
(d) Airplane glue and potato chips.

2. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?
(a) Sherman Alexie.
(b) Linda Hogan.
(c) Susan Power.
(d) Louis Owens.

3. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," where does the speaker's recurring dream take place?
(a) At a high-school basketball game.
(b) In her mother's kitchen.
(c) In a New York hotel room.
(d) At the edge of the reservation.

4. In "Snake-Light," what letter does the speaker say was once just the image of a snake?
(a) C.
(b) N.
(c) S.
(d) M.

5. In "I, Minotaur," who is Briareus?
(a) This is another name for Theseus.
(b) One of the Hecatoncheires.
(c) Ariadne's father.
(d) One of the people killed by the Minotaur.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The First Water Is the Body," what city's water crisis is specifically mentioned?

2. In "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker compare the light in the holes in the walls?

3. In "Waist and Sway," what page 78 diction choice indicates that the speaker feels punished or oppressed by her desire for the woman?

4. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," how many dams does the speaker say "shatter" the Colorado (61)?

5. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific product's logo does the speaker mention?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," how does the speaker claim to have been wounded, and what does she say causes the "hurt" of the wound?

2. In "Snake-Light," what comparison does the speaker make between snakes and writing?

3. In the opening of "Snake-Light," what does the speaker literally see in the desert, and to what does she compare it?

4. What is the setting of "Waist and Sway," and how is its setting unusual for this collection?

5. In "Grief Work," what is the symbolic significance of the poem's final sequence in which the speaker and her beloved are in the river?

6. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what metaphorical comparison is developed in the lines, "How many hours bowed against this Infinity of Blessed/ Trinity?" (37)?

7. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what happens when the speaker goes to the hospital for a panic attack?

8. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's guest tell her the inscription is, and what is it in reality?

9. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the guidebook say?

10. Explain the metaphor "Transubstantiation bone--hips of bread,/ wine-whet thighs" in "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" (37).

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