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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 "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
2. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
3. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?
4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?
5. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," to what does the speaker compare the United States?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "The Mustangs," why does the speaker open the poem by reminding the reader that it was "In another life" that her brother was a high-school athlete (35)?
2. In "From the Desire Field," what is the "desire field," and why does the speaker find herself there?
3. What play on the word "race" is used in "American Arithmetic"?
4. What is the setting of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
5. In "Like Church," what claim is made about what whites compare Native people to?
6. What is the main point being made in "American Arithmetic"?
7. In "Run'n'Gun," what impresses the speaker about Clyde's basketball playing?
8. What relationship exists between the title "Postcolonial Love Poem" and the line, "I learned Drink in a country of drought" (1)?
9. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?
10. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what dark joke does the speaker make about reparations?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose a poem we did not specifically discuss in class. Write an explication of this poem, explaining how its techniques create its meaning. At least some of your evidence should be quoted, and if you require outside sources to understand allusions, etc., be sure to cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about contradictions in Postcolonial Love Poem. What paradoxical or contradictory situations does Diaz's work comment on? Does Diaz seem comfortable or uncomfortable with these contradictions? What literary devices does she use to communicate them? Use textual evidence from at least five poems in defense of your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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