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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 "exhibits from The American Water Museum," whose admission price is "the kidneys" (64)?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Children.
(c) Natives.
(d) Fish.

2. What name for the Mojave people does the speaker share in "The First Water Is the Body"?
(a) 'Aha Makav.
(b) Te'po'ta'ahl.
(c) Achumawi.
(d) Me-wuk.

3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," why does the speaker take her brother's call?
(a) Because she thinks that it is someone else calling.
(b) Because he might be in danger.
(c) Because he will keep calling until she does.
(d) Because she wants to tell him about the cranes.

4. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker dream about?
(a) Snakes turning into White people.
(b) That her arms have turned into snakes.
(c) Snakes trying to talk to her.
(d) That her pickup truck is full of snakes.

5. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," the speaker describes something as "Maenad." What is this a reference to?
(a) Orpheus's wife.
(b) Dionysus's female followers.
(c) Demeter's daughter.
(d) King Menelaus's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?

2. In "The First Water Is the Body," whom does the speaker call "The only red people I've ever seen" (46)?

3. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?

4. In the context of "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," in the expression "madre mías," what is the most likely reason that mía is made plural?

5. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what story does the rock painting tell, and what is its significance to the speaker?

2. In "The First Water Is the Body," what are the speaker's concerns about explaining to a non-Indian audience that for her people, the river and the body are one thing?

3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," what does the speaker's brother request, and why?

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

5. 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?

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

7. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what is the double entente in the line, "as it rips down through the net, our enemies will fall to their wounded knees, with torn ACLs" (41)?

8. 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?

9. In "My Brother, My Wound," how is light used metaphorically?

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

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