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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 "It Was the Animals," what has the speaker's brother actually found?
2. In "Snake-Light," what does the speaker dream about?
3. In "Ode to the Beloved's Hips," what is a "traje de luces"?
4. In the opening of "How the Milky Way Was Made," what aspect of the Colorado before its damming is stressed?
5. In "Waist and Sway," what causes the beloved to have a "honeyed" appearance?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what story does the rock painting tell, and what is its significance to the speaker?
2. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," what does the speaker try to tell her brother about cranes, and what is its thematic significance?
3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," what does the speaker's brother request, and why?
4. In "My Brother, My Wound," how is light used metaphorically?
5. In "The First Water Is the Body," what are the speaker's concerns about explaining to a non-Indian audience that for her people, the river and the body are one thing?
6. In "exhibits from The American Water Museum," what does the guidebook say?
7. 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)?
8. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," how does the speaker claim to have been wounded, and what does she say causes the "hurt" of the wound?
9. What is the setting of "Waist and Sway," and how is its setting unusual for this collection?
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
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the "wounds" motif in Postcolonial Love Poem. How do wounds function at both a literal and a symbolic level, and what positive function do poems in this collection seem to suggest wounds might serve? Be sure to support your analysis with evidence from at least five poems in the collection.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that examines Diaz's use of structure and formatting. Choose one or more poems and create a thesis that makes a claim about her use of structure and formatting in your chosen poem(s). How does she use space on the page and linebreak to group ideas, control pace, and create emphasis? Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.
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