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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 "Snake-Light," what tradition does the speaker critique?
(a) Snake charming.
(b) Milking rattlesnake venom.
(c) Snake handling.
(d) Rattlesnake rodeos.

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what are "our conquerors" compared to (44)?
(a) Bulls.
(b) Horses.
(c) Coyotes.
(d) Jaguars.

3. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker want to do that her brother stops her from doing?
(a) Read the inscription on the wood.
(b) Throw out the piece of wood.
(c) Call her brother's doctor.
(d) Follow the animals.

4. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what is anger said to be a demand for?
(a) Respect.
(b) Apology.
(c) Reparations.
(d) Love.

5. In "The First Water Is the Body," what word does the speaker borrow from John Berger?
(a) "Submerge."
(b) "Pre-verbal."
(c) "Juxtaposition."
(d) "Channeled."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what does the speaker compare breathing to?

3. Who is the Jacques Derrida mentioned in "The First Water Is the Body"?

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," why are pears, apples, and figs specifically mentioned?

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that Indian sweat smells like?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what leads the speaker to call the train caboose the best part of a train?

2. 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)?

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

4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is the rhetorical function of the lines: "I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock/ right now" (37)?

5. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what is depicted in the "Photograph from a South American newspaper," and what is its significance?

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

7. 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?

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

9. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific concern does the speaker have about the Colorado River?

10. What two conceits are central to "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert"?

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