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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 "Snake-Light," what is the rhetorical purpose of mentioning the butterflies?
2. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what techniques are employed in the line "Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little" (37)?
3. In "The First Water Is the Body," what river does the author specifically discuss?
4. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what war is alluded to?
5. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific product's logo does the speaker mention?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what metaphorical comparison is developed in the lines, "How many hours bowed against this Infinity of Blessed/ Trinity?" (37)?
2. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's guest tell her the inscription is, and what is it in reality?
3. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what is depicted in the "Photograph from a South American newspaper," and what is its significance?
4. In "How the Milky Way Was Made," what does the speaker say about Coyote?
5. In "It Was the Animals," who comes to the speaker's house, and what is that person carrying?
6. In "My Brother, My Wound," how is light used metaphorically?
7. Explain the metaphor "Transubstantiation bone--hips of bread,/ wine-whet thighs" in "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" (37).
8. What is the setting of "Waist and Sway," and how is its setting unusual for this collection?
9. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is the rhetorical function of the lines: "I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock/ right now" (37)?
10. In "Grief Work," what is the symbolic significance of the poem's final sequence in which the speaker and her beloved are in the river?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you contrast the natural and the man-made in Postcolonial Love Poem. How are images and details in these two categories employed? In what contexts? What do they seem to signify? Consider these questions and any others that seem relevant as you defend a thesis that makes a claim about how the natural and man-made differ in this collection.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you defend, refute, or qualify the following statement: "Natalie Diaz's collection Postcolonial Love Poem celebrates the strength of Mojave culture." Be sure to support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that traces the development of the "hips" 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.
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