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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 "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. In "Grief Work," which ancient work is alluded to?
(a) Hesiod's Theogony.
(b) Homer's Odyssey.
(c) The Code of Hammurabi.
(d) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

3. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what does the speaker "diagnose" herself and the reservation as?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Dream-like.
(c) Rusting.
(d) Dirty.

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," whom does the speaker call "The only red people I've ever seen" (46)?
(a) The Mojave.
(b) Embarrassed politicians.
(c) Communists.
(d) Sunburned tourists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what power does the speaker ascribe to the air?

2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what technique is evident in the line, "Four fat quails making a campanile of the mesquite tree" (43)?

3. From its context in "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what can be assumed about the Hotchkiss and Springfield Model 1873?

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

5. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker claim causes the milky appearance of the galaxy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The First Water Is the Body," what point does the speaker make about the limitations of words?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what is the speaker's recurring dream?

7. 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?

8. In "I, Minotaur," to what plant does the speaker compare herself, and why?

9. 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)?

10. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what choice does the speaker say the Creator gave Indian peoples, and who chose each option?

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