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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 other poet is alluded to?
2. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?
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. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What relationship exists between the title "Postcolonial Love Poem" and the line, "I learned Drink in a country of drought" (1)?
3. In "The Mustangs," what is important to the speaker about her brother's appearance?
4. In "Catching Copper," what is the significance of the page 11 lines ,"My brothers feed their bullet/ the way the bulls fed Zeus"?
5. 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)?
6. What is the main point being made in "American Arithmetic"?
7. In "Like Church," what claim is made about what whites compare Native people to?
8. In "Run'n'Gun," what life lessons does the speaker learn from playing basketball?
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 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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the ways in which Diaz's work blends the Western and the indigenous. Use evidence from at least five poems in the collection as support for your ideas; if you use outside sources, be sure to cite them in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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