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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 "How the Milky Way Was Made," what do the Natives lift into the sky?
2. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what number is described as "lucky" (42)?
3. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what creature's horn is referenced in the poem's epigraph?
4. In "It Was the Animals," what has the speaker's brother actually found?
5. What unusual typographic device is contained in "exhibits from The American Water Museum"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what two senses can the title "My Brother, My Wound" be interpreted?
2. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific concern does the speaker have about the Colorado River?
3. In the opening of "Snake-Light," what does the speaker literally see in the desert, and to what does she compare it?
4. In "It Was the Animals," who comes to the speaker's house, and what is that person carrying?
5. In "My Brother, My Wound," how is light used metaphorically?
6. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what is the double entente in the line, "as it rips down through the net, our enemies will fall to their wounded knees, with torn ACLs" (41)?
7. In "Snake-Light," what comparison does the speaker make between snakes and writing?
8. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker say about Coyote?
9. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," what does the speaker's brother request, and why?
10. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what choice does the speaker say the Creator gave Indian peoples, and who chose each option?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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 make and defend a claim regarding how the languages used in Postcolonial Love Poem support one of the book's key themes. Consider why English is the primary language of the poems and explain when and why non-English words are used. Use biographical research to find out what language(s) Diaz speaks, and consider this information in your argument. Use textual support for your claims, at least some of it quoted. Cite all sources in MLA format.
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