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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 Western cities' use of Colorado River water is criticized?
2. In "The Cure for Melancholy Is to Take the Horn," what British monarch is mentioned?
3. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's brother tell her she can read about on the wood he has found?
4. In "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert," to whom does the speaker allude when she says "Each steaming bowl will be, Just right" (81)?
5. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what leads the speaker to call the train caboose the best part of a train?
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 "My Brother, My Wound," how is light used metaphorically?
4. In "The First Water Is the Body," what point does the speaker make about the limitations of words?
5. Explain the metaphor "Transubstantiation bone--hips of bread,/ wine-whet thighs" in "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" (37).
6. In "The First Water Is the Body," what specific concern does the speaker have about the Colorado River?
7. What two conceits are central to "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert"?
8. 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?
9. In what two senses can the title "My Brother, My Wound" be interpreted?
10. 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)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 in which you explore the motif of "thirst" in Postcolonial Love Poem. What is the source of the speaker's thirst, and how does she seek to quench that thirst? Provide support from at least five of the collection's poems.
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