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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following appliance brands does the narrator note as strewn across her parents’ floor?
(a) Electorlux.
(b) LG.
(c) Maytag.
(d) Amana.

3. Which of the following is the first line of the title poem?
(a) “I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit”
(b) “Angels don’t come to the reservation”
(c) “he lived in our basement and sacrificed my parents”
(d) “When we were children, we traced our knees”

4. In a grove of which of the following does the narrator’s brother preside?
(a) Juniper.
(b) Salt cedar.
(c) Red oak.
(d) Mountain cedar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following items of jewelry is noted to accompany Mojave Barbie?

2. Along which of the following does the narrator’s brother stumble?

3. Which of the following do the Hopi elders claim is angry in “The Facts of Art”?

4. To which of the following does the narrator compare methamphetamine?

5. To which of the following mythical beasts does the narrator compare her brother?

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