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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 "Wolf OR-7," what state has the solitary wolf "OR-7" entered?

2. In "Run'n'Gun," what causes the speaker's older brother's game to deteriorate?

3. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

4. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?

5. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Run'n'Gun," what life lessons does the speaker learn from playing basketball?

2. In "Skin-Light," what is Teotlachco, and what is its significance in the poem?

3. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker mean by "how did Theseus find no joy in you?" (27)?

4. In "Blood-Light," what do the scorpions represent, and how does the reader know this?

5. In "The Mustangs," how are mustangs used symbolically?

6. To whom is the speaker alluding in the third strophe of "These Hands, If Not Gods," when she mentions "a sin worth hurting for" (7), and how does the reader know this?

7. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what dark joke does the speaker make about reparations?

8. What is a literal summary of the action of "Blood-Light"?

9. In "Wolf OR-7," what is significant about the wolf in the poem's title?

10. In "Run'n'Gun," what impresses the speaker about Clyde's basketball playing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you contrast the natural and the man-made in Postcolonial Love Poem. How are images and details in these two categories employed? In what contexts? What do they seem to signify? Consider these questions and any others that seem relevant as you defend a thesis that makes a claim about how the natural and man-made differ in this collection.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about how the collection Postcolonial Love Poems connects personal and political issues. Use textual support from at least five poems in the collection in defense of your claim.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about Diaz's use of humor in Postcolonial Love Poem. Where does she employ it, and to what purpose? Use evidence from at least five poems in the collection to support your ideas.

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