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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 "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?
2. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
3. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is the antecedent of the word "they" in the opening line "Haven't they moved like rivers?" (7)?
5. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a literal summary of the action of "Blood-Light"?
2. In "The Mustangs," what is important to the speaker about her brother's appearance?
3. What play on the word "race" is used in "American Arithmetic"?
4. 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)?
5. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?
6. In "Wolf OR-7," what is significant about the wolf in the poem's title?
7. What is the setting of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
8. What does the speaker mean in "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" when she says that she can see through maps?
9. What is the speaker's argument for her hands as "gods" in "These Hands, If Not Gods"?
10. In "Like Church," what claim is made about what whites compare Native people to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explores the complexity with which relationships are portrayed in Postcolonial Love Poem. Comment on both family and romantic relationships in your analysis, and provide support from at least five of the collection's poems.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you defend, refute, or qualify the following thesis: "In Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz re-centers many types of marginalized identities." Be sure to support your thesis with evidence from throughout the collection.
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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