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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," what does the line "verde, te quiero verde" literally translate to (12)?
2. In "Catching Copper," when the brothers are searching for their bullet, what sound is heard?
3. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
4. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
5. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In "Skin-Light," what is the "work of all good yokes" (22)?
3. In "Run'n'Gun," what impresses the speaker about Clyde's basketball playing?
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. 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?
6. In "Like Church," what is the literal claim about the speaker's window and what is its figurative significance?
7. In "From the Desire Field," what is the "desire field," and why does the speaker find herself there?
8. Explain the central conceit in the poem "Catching Copper."
9. In "Wolf OR-7," what is significant about the wolf in the poem's title?
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 that analyzes Diaz's use of both high- and low-cultural references in Postcolonial Love Song. Use textual evidence from at least five separate poems as support for your claims.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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