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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 technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?

2. In "The Mustangs," what AC/DC song is mentioned?

3. In "Like Church," what does the speaker mean by "It is real work not to perform/ a fable" (30)?

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 "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the central conceit in the poem "Catching Copper."

2. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?

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

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

5. In "Wolf OR-7," what metaphor is employed in the section of the poem where the speaker claims, "Some things cannot be charted" (32)?

6. In "Catching Copper," what is the significance of the page 11 lines ,"My brothers feed their bullet/ the way the bulls fed Zeus"?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Write an essay in which you explore the motif of "thirst" in Postcolonial Love Poem. What is the source of the speaker's thirst, and how does she seek to quench that thirst? Provide support from at least five of the collection's poems.

Essay Topic 2

Each section of Postcolonial Love Poem is preceded by a quote. Investigate the contexts and meanings of these quotes and then write an essay that makes and defends a claim about how these quotes provide structure to the collection of poems. Use textual support to defend your ideas, and cite outside sources 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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