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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Run'n'Gun," what sport does the speaker discuss?
2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
3. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?
4. In "Catching Copper," what kind of "comb" is meant in the page 9 lines, "you should see my brothers' bullet/ make a comb, by chewing holes/ in what is sweet"?
5. In "Skin-Light," when the speaker uses the word "lightmonger," what literary technique is this an example of (22)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a literal summary of the action of "Blood-Light"?
2. What is the setting of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
3. In "Skin-Light," what is the "work of all good yokes" (22)?
4. What does the speaker mean in "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" when she says that she can see through maps?
5. What is the main point being made in "American Arithmetic"?
6. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what dark joke does the speaker make about reparations?
7. In "From the Desire Field," what seems to make the speaker feel better, and to what does she point as a possible, eventual cure for her sleeplessness?
8. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?
9. Explain the central conceit in the poem "Catching Copper."
10. In what way does the page 1 opening line of "Postcolonial Love Poem," ("I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite") center the Mojave worldview?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that traces the development of the "bull" motif in Postcolonial Love Poem. Show how different poems develop differing aspects of this motif and make a claim about its overall meaning within the collection.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you explore how the fusion of land, body, and spirit in Postcolonial Love Poem centers the Mojave worldview. Use evidence from throughout the collection in support of your thesis, and if you utilize outside sources, be sure to cite them in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that takes and defends a position about the use of religious language, iconography, and concepts in Postcolonial Love Poem. Use textual evidence from at least five separate poems to support your claims.
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