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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 "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what power does the speaker ascribe to the air?
(a) The power to give life.
(b) The power to dry out the land.
(c) The power to tell us what we are.
(d) The power to spread emotion from person to person.

2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," to what does the speaker compare the camera's aperture?
(a) An eye.
(b) A mouth.
(c) A lake.
(d) A wound.

3. In "Waist and Sway," what page 78 diction choice indicates that the speaker feels punished or oppressed by her desire for the woman?
(a) "Moths."
(b) "Pillory."
(c) "Amber."
(d) "Alchemists."

4. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?
(a) Iola, Kansas.
(b) Pratt, Kansas.
(c) Chadron, Nebraska.
(d) Kearney, Nebraska.

5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what does the speaker claim that basketball is identical with?
(a) College.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Church.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Grief Work," what does the speaker say she is giving up?

5. In "Snake-Light," the speaker mentions "caliche" (82). What is caliche?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. In what two senses can the title "My Brother, My Wound" be interpreted?

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

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

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

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