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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III, “1. I Watch Her Eat the Apple” to “9. Of Course She Looked Back”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the first line of “Downhill Triolets”?
(a) “The phone rings—my brother was arrested again.”
(b) “—my parents live without light, groping.”
(c) “He sat cross-legged, weeping on the steps.”
(d) “If he’s wearing knives for eyes.”

2. In “Self-Portrait as a Chimera,” the narrator’s mother has a temple at which of the following?
(a) Her belly.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her head.
(d) Her breast.

3. Which of the following does the narrator note has been disassembled in “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
(a) Electric keyboards.
(b) Guitar amps.
(c) Computer monitors.
(d) A saxophone.

4. Which of the following is the first line of “Reservation Grass”?
(a) “I found your blue suitcases.”
(b) “Betsy Ross needled hot stars to Mr. Washington’s bedspread.”
(c) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(d) “Corned beef comes on the first of every month.”

5. Which of the following is the first line of “As a Consequence of My Brother Stealing All the Lightbulbs”?
(a) “—my parents live without light, groping.”
(b) “If he’s wearing knives for eyes.”
(c) “The phone rings—my brother was arrested again.”
(d) “He sat cross-legged, weeping on the steps.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Mojave Barbie has a tape of which of the following poets?

2. In posing a hypothetical about God, which of the following games does the narrator posit God might invent?

3. Which of the following is the narrator named by “dark rosettes” (77)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator associate with the loincloth of a greedy god?

5. Which of the following gaming systems does the narrator note as strewn across her parents’ floor?

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