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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 "My Brother, My Wound," to what does the speaker compare the light in the holes in the walls?
(a) Stars.
(b) Canaries.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Yellow jackets.

2. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what British monarch is mentioned?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) Victoria I.
(c) Elizabeth I.
(d) George III.

3. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what do the Natives lift into the sky?
(a) Fish.
(b) The sun.
(c) Water.
(d) The moon.

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

5. In "It Was the Animals," where does the speaker's brother claim to have gotten a piece of the ark?
(a) "The girl" (59).
(b) "The walkway" (59).
(c) ""The wood" (59).
(d) "The walls" (59).

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?

2. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what nineteenth century America poet is mentioned?

3. 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?

4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what river does the author specifically discuss?

5. On page 87 of "Snake-Light," why does the speaker's great-grandmother tell her they do not eat snakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker say about Coyote?

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

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

4. 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?

5. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker say happens when the word "Hikwiir" is said aloud (84)?

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

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

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

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

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

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