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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I, “9. Cloud Watching” to “18. The Clouds Are Buffalo Limping toward Jesus”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color hair do the women who dance with Guy No-Horse have?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

2. Which of the following is the first line of “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?
(a) “I found your blue suitcases.”
(b) “Who mines her throat?”
(c) “Betsy Ross needled hot stars to Mr. Washington’s bedspread.”
(d) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”

3. Which of the following is the first line of “Other Small Thundering”?
(a) “We are born with spinning coins in place of eyes.”
(b) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(c) “The Arizona highway sailed across the desert.”
(d) “Despair has a loose daughter.”

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

5. To which of the following avians does the narrator compare her menstruation?
(a) Mayura.
(b) Thunderbird.
(c) Roc.
(d) Phoenix.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following bluish semiprecious stones does the narrator’s brother reportedly always return?

2. Which of the following describes the suit in “Mercy Songs to Melancholy”?

3. To which of the following is “A Woman with No Legs” dedicated?

4. From which of the following is the inscription at the beginning of “The Facts of Art” taken?

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

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