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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 "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," where is the speaker?
2. 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)?
3. In "It Was the Animals," what has the speaker's brother actually found?
4. In "Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball," what other Indian author is mentioned?
5. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," how does the speaker's brother respond to her description of the cranes' dance?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what two senses can the title "My Brother, My Wound" be interpreted?
2. 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)?
3. In "Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera," what does the speaker try to tell her brother about cranes, and what is its thematic significance?
4. 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)?
5. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what happens when the speaker goes to the hospital for a panic attack?
6. In "Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?" what leads the speaker to call the train caboose the best part of a train?
7. In "Waist and Sway," what temptation is the speaker trying to resist, and what is the outcome?
8. 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)?
9. In "That Which Cannot Be Stilled," what is the speaker's recurring dream?
10. In "It Was the Animals," what does the speaker's guest tell her the inscription is, and what is it in reality?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you defend, refute, or qualify the following thesis: "In Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz re-centers many types of marginalized identities." Be sure to support your thesis with evidence from throughout the collection.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about how the collection Postcolonial Love Poems connects personal and political issues. Use textual support from at least five poems in the collection in defense of your claim.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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